Re: FindBugs

From: Robert Zeigler (robert..uregumption.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 12:07:13 EST

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    Robert
    On Feb 1, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Robert Zeigler wrote:

    > 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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    >>> http://www.ish.com.au
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    >>> phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001
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    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >



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