OCLint

OCLint is a static code analysis tool for improving quality and reducing defects by inspecting C, C++ and Objective-C code and looking for potential problems like:

• Possible bugs – empty if/else/try/catch/finally statements
• Unused code – unused local variables and parameters
• Complicated code – high cyclomatic complexity, NPath complexity and high NCSS
• Redundant code – redundant if statement and useless parentheses
• Code smells – long method and long parameter list
• Bad practices – inverted logic and parameter reassignment

Installing OCLint via Homebrew:

$ brew tap oclint/formulae
$ brew install oclint

Refer to your ios project run below commands,

$ brew tap oclint/formulae
$ brew install oclint

Refer to github repo for more info.

Execute oclint command :

$ oclint

Terminal should give message  like oclint: Not enough positional command line arguments specified!

Lets run the oclint in our Xcode project now.

Checking Single File

OCLint checks a single file using the following format:

oclint [options] <source> -- [compiler flags]

Assume that I have Sample.m file and I want to check them,

$ oclint Sample.m 

Checking Multiple Files

OCLint checks a multiple files using the following format:

oclint [options]  <source0> [... <sourceN>] -- [compiler flags]

However, each source file may have different compiler flags. In this case, by reading from the compilation database, OCLint can recognize the list of source files for analysis, along with the compiler flags used for each time during the compilation phase. It can be considered as a condensed Makefile. So, in this case

oclint -p <build-path> [other options]  <source0> [... <sourceN>]

Update

To update the brew package, use brew update first:

$ brew update
$ brew upgrade oclint

For further information here is the documentation.