Hi,
I'd be interested in seeing the report.
Robert
On Feb 1, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Michael Gentry wrote:
> There are ways to tell the tool to exclude bugs by a filter list. I
> haven't looked into the details of that yet, but that could be an
> option to eliminate things we decide are OK and don't want to appear
> again.
>
> I'm attaching an HTML report I produced with this command-line:
>
> ~/Projects/eclipse/workspace/Cayenne30/framework>
> ~/Desktop/findbugs-1.1.1/bin/findbugs -textui -effort:max -onlyAnalyze
> 'org.apache.cayenne.-' -low -html -outputFile modeler-report.html
> cayenne-modeler
>
> It also has a -xdocs option to produce output for Maven. Obviously, I
> have more work to do. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> /dev/mrg
>
> PS. If the mailing list strips the attachment and you want to see it
> (and don't want to run your own like I did above), shoot me an e-mail
> directly.
>
>
> On 2/1/07, Aristedes Maniatis <ar..sh.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/02/2007, at 12:43 AM, Michael Gentry wrote:
>>
>> > What would the general consensus be here of using FindBugs
>> > (http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/)? I just used the 1.1.1
>> version to
>> > analyze Cayenne 3.0 and it is reporting 1720 (potential) bugs (at
>> > least on my current source tree). I haven't used this tool much
>> yet,
>> > but it seems like it could be useful. I also believe it has
>> support
>> > to run in the background, like from an ant task. This could be
>> useful
>> > for nightly builds. Or even like a weekly report of some kind.
>>
>>
>> From my experience of it, there are lots of 'bugs' it finds which
>> you end up having to ignore. If that was the case, a weekly report
>> may not be that helpful since anything useful would be buried in the
>> noise. But if the FindBug count count be brought to zero, then a
>> weekly script might be more useful. I seem to remember that there are
>> lots of ways to configure the rules it runs to quite a fine degree. I
>> seem to remember that the style and performance reports it created
>> were less useful, but it found some interesting problems in our code
>> base.
>>
>> Ari Maniatis
>>
>>
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