Re: FindBugs

From: Michael Gentry (blacknex..mail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 19:01:00 EST

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    OK, here it is:

    http://people.apache.org/~mgentry/modeler-report.html

    Thanks,

    /dev/mrg

    On 2/1/07, Michael Gentry <blacknex..mail.com> wrote:
    > Sadly, SSH is blocked. I can do it tonight when I get home ...
    >
    > /dev/mrg
    >
    >
    > On 2/1/07, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
    > > Michael,
    > >
    > > BTW, you can use your apache web space to publish the report (if you
    > > can ssh from work that is). Just log in to people.apache.org and put
    > > HTML content under ~/public_html. The URL will be:
    > >
    > > http://people.apache.org/~mgentry/whatever
    > >
    > > Andrus
    > >
    > >
    > > On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:56 PM, 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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    > >
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