Spotbugs Maven Plugin

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Building spotbugs-maven-plugin Requirements

Java 8 is required for spotbugs analysis.

spotbugs-maven-plugin

Maven Mojo Plug-In to generate reports based on the SpotBugs Analyzer

Special notice

Continue to use 'FindBugsFilter' when needed as the spotbugs project has not yet renamed that to reflect project.

Usage

The SpotBugs documentation describes the pom.xml modifications and Maven goals.

Running Tests

Run all tests

mvn -DtestSrc=remote -Prun-its clean install -D"invoker.parallelThreads=4"

Skip tests

mvn -DskipTests=true clean install

Run tests on spotbugs test source code that is local instead of from SpotBugs github repository

mvn -DtestSrc=local -DlocalTestSrc=/opt/spotBugs -Prun-its clean install -D"invoker.parallelThreads=4"

Run selected tests

mvn -DtestSrc=remote -Prun-its -Dinvoker.test=build-*,basic-1,check-nofail clean install -D"invoker.parallelThreads=4"

Run tests in debugger

mvn -Dmaven.surefire.debug="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=8000 -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE" -Prun-its clean install 

Run selected tests in debugger

mvn -Dmaven.surefire.debug="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=8000 -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE" -Prun-its -Dinvoker.test=build-*,basic-1,check clean install

Run gui with a specific version

mvn com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin:3.1.8:gui