Introducing FindBugs

[Malcolm Edgar <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I wonder if we should look at introducing FindBugs into our build system.

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

I ran this a few years ago on the Click code base, but it has changed
a lot since then.

regards Malcolm Edgar

Re: Introducing FindBugs

["Adrian A." <a....@gmail.com>]

> I wonder if we should look at introducing FindBugs into our build system.
> 
> http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I ran this a few years ago on the Click code base, but it has changed
> a lot since then.
 From my experience it's not worth that much the effort.
A much better alternative would be to use IntelliJ (it's free for open 
source projects), as it has a much better portfolio of "inspections".

Adrian.

Re: Introducing FindBugs

[Malcolm Edgar <ma...@gmail.com>]

It would be good not to be dependent upon an IDE for this stuff.  We
can give it a go maybe using a IDE plugin to see whether its worth
incorporating into the build system.

regards Malcolm Edgar

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Bob Schellink<sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guess it depends if it finds many bugs in the codebase.
>
> We just need to remember this is a LGPL lib.
>
> bob
>
> Malcolm Edgar wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder if we should look at introducing FindBugs into our build system.
>>
>> http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I ran this a few years ago on the Click code base, but it has changed
>> a lot since then.
>>
>> regards Malcolm Edgar
>>
>
>

Re: Introducing FindBugs

[Bob Schellink <sa...@gmail.com>]

Guess it depends if it finds many bugs in the codebase.

We just need to remember this is a LGPL lib.

bob

Malcolm Edgar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if we should look at introducing FindBugs into our build system.
> 
> http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I ran this a few years ago on the Click code base, but it has changed
> a lot since then.
> 
> regards Malcolm Edgar
>