Code inspection: Use compound assignment

This inspection reports assignments where the left-hand side is immediately combined with another value and assigned back to itself. Typical examples are patterns like x = x + y or x = x * y, which can be written with a compound assignment operator.

Example

                count = count + 1;
                total = total * factor;
            

                count += 1;
                total *= factor;
            

Quick-fix

Compound assignments are shorter and make the "update this variable" intent explicit.

30 March 2026