This inspection extends the functionality of the "Tail Recursion" inspection in the "Performance" group for Java in Intellij IDEA.

This inspection detects methods containing recursive calls (not just tail recursive calls) and removes the recursion from the method body, while preserving the original semantics of the code. However, the resulting code becomes rather obfuscated if the control flow in the recursive method is complex.

• The inspection directory contains the source code of the inspection.
• A detailed description of the algorithm is included in thesis/thesis.pdf.
• The test-recursion project contains examples of recursive methods and tests to verify that the semantics of the code is preserved.