JVM Ecosystem report 2018 - About your Tools
Blog post from Snyk
The Java developer community has been surveyed, with over 10,200 respondents providing insights into their tools and practices. IntelliJ IDEA has gained significant ground, becoming the most used IDE among developers, while Eclipse still maintains a loyal following. Maven dominates as the primary build tool, with Gradle gaining traction due to its support for Kotlin. Static quality tools like SonarQube, Findbugs, and Checkstyle are widely used, but 36% of respondents don't use any static quality tool at all. Security testing is also becoming increasingly important, with most developers not using any static security tool in their pipeline. Jenkins takes the lead as the CI server, but a significant portion of developers don't use CI for their projects. Git has convincingly won the horse race in source code management, while GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab share an almost even market for code repositories. JUnit is widely used as the primary testing technology, with Mockito emerging as the preferred mocking framework. Overall, the survey highlights the importance of using tools to improve development efficiency and security.