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Code Quality using Sonar (CodeHaus)

"SONAR is an open source software quality management tool, dedicated to continuously analyze and measure source code quality."
SONAR is very useful if you are the kind of developer who thinks that well written code is more important than quick and dirty non durable solutions. Having a real-time graphical view of the metrics of your software is a very handy information, specially for agile teams. The public instance of Sonar will show metrics on famous (and not so famous) open-source projects and you can compare those with your own metrics and tell your boss how good (or not ;) ) you and your team are doing on software quality.

This is the Tomcat´s dashboard showing some interesting metrics on the quality of their code.

Sonar was created by CodeHaus and they provide some screencasts about it.
Great tool!