Coming soon…
Rubberduck has had a decent unit testing feature since 1.0. Version 1.1 introduced a concept of code inspections – a proof of concept really, a sketch of a vision of what we wanted Rubberduck to do with the VBA code in the IDE.
Upcoming version 1.2 has undergone massive changes in the parsing strategy – going from a home-made regex-based solution to a full-blown ANTLR [slightly modified] Visual Basic 6.0 grammar generating a lexer and parser. As a result, code inspection capabilities have gone exactly where we envisioned them from the start.
Here’s what version 1.2 can find in your VBA code (in alphabetical order):
- Implicit ByRef parameter
- Implicit Variant return type (function/property get)
- Multiple declarations in single instruction
- Function return value not assigned
- Obsolete Call statement
- Obsolete Rem statement
- Obsolete Global declaration
- Obsolete Let statement
- Obsolete type hint
- Option Base 1 is potentially confusing
- Option Explicit is not specified
- Parameter can be…
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Christopher J. McClellan 