Static Analysis

In order to improve the quality of our code, we use three analysis tools:

•  Findbugs,
•  Checkstyle
•  PMD

These tools can be executed via the corresponding ant goals (findbugs, checkstyle, pmd) and via the goal static-analysis, which executes all of them. The tools write report files which can be found in the tmp directory.

Furthermore, these tools are executed during the Kieker nightly build. A high amount of reported bugs/errors lead to a fail of the build process. Source code on the master branch should therefore be free from:

• Any reports from PMD
• Any reports from Findbugs
• Error level reports from Checkstyle

There are also Eclipse integration plugins for these tools available:

•  PMD for Eclipse
•  Eclipse-Checkstyle integration
•  FindBugs Eclipse Plug-In

Configuration files for these integrations can be found in the base directory of the Kieker project.