Coding standards are something both automating testers and developers should adhere to. Pretty obvious right? Maybe not that obvious might be some of the rules you should follow when writing the code for your tests. Checkstyle is here to help in standardizing your code, so that you can get an early feedback regarding code improvements (earlier than the code review step anyway).  It allows you to define a set of basic coding rules that must be followed in your project, and it gives you the opportunity to make your builds fail if someone breaks those rules. This post addresses using checkstyle from a Maven project, by means of the dedicated Maven plugin that you need to declare in your project. Continue reading Using Maven checkstyle in your project to help adhere to coding standards →