This plugin generates the trend report for FindBugs, an open source program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. 

Description

The FindBugs plug-in scans for findbugs.xml files in the build workspace and reports the number of warnings found. This plug-in is part of the suite of static code analysis plug-ins that are documented on a separate WIKI page.

The following features are provided by this plug-in:

• Configuration of the files to scan after a build.
• Build summary showing the new and fixed warnings of a build
• Trend reports showing the number of warnings in corresponding colors
  • Severity Trend: visualizes the number of warnings per severity
  • Threshold Trend: visualizes the number of warnings below and above the health thresholds
• Overview of the found warnings per module, package, category, or type
  • Parsing of Maven pom.xml or Ant build.xml configuration files to obtain the module or project name
  • Parsing of Java or C# files to obtain the package or name space name
• Detail reports of the found warnings optionally filtered by severity (or new and fixed)
  • Short messages is read from the report file
  • Detailed description is read from the FindBugs library
• Colored HTML display of the corresponding source file and warning lines:
  • Direct link to the warning line
  • Highlighting of single lines as well as line ranges
  • Highlighting of multiple line ranges per warning (different color for primary range)
  • Tool tip describing the warning message
• Failure threshold to mark a build as unstable
• Configurable project health support
• Support for the findbugs ant task and the maven-findbugs-plugin 1.1.1 and newer
• Works with the freestyle and native m2 build option of Hudson (activated on goal findbugs:findbugs or site)
• Localization available for: DE (Please help to localize findbugs for your locale!)

The current release is available in the download section. This plug-in is developed and maintained by Ullrich Hafner. Please use the Hudson mailing lists or issue tracker to ask questions, create feature request or bug reports, since I don't read the comment section on this page regularly.

Changelog

HEAD:

• New and fixed warnings of are now computed using the refactoring-aware hash codes of the findbugs plugin (issue #731)
• Fixed parsing of findbugs files if Hudson is deployed in JBoss container (issue #1991)

Release 2.13:

• Show spinner image during loading of tab content.
• Added number of items in the label of a tab.

Release 2.12:

• Added dynamic loading of the tab content in the detail pages.

Release 2.11:

• Fixed module aggregation for m2 builds (issue #2153)

Release 2.10:

• Added different help texts for maven or freestyle configuration
• Parsing of ant build.xml or maven pom.xml files is now only done if the build runs with the corresponding runner (issue #1898)
• Ignore maven projects without target folder (issue #1813)
• Reduced mermory footprint of parser (issue #1960)
• Fixed NPE during computation of new warnings (issue #2093)
• "Zero warnings since build #x" indicator should work correctly now (issue #1533)
• Height of trend graph can be changed for the m2 project type, too (issue #2115)

Release 2.9:

• New file overview page that shows the distribution per file
• Added source code links to warnings table
• Show line number of files in all warning detail views (issue #1974)
• Improved layout (css) of the tabview

Release 2.8:

• New result UI with drill-down and statistics of modules, packages, severities, categories, types, overview, details, fixed and new warnings
• Added parsing of ANT build.xml files to extract the project name (issue #1560)
• Improved parsing of Java files to extract the package name (issue #1828, issue #1829)

Release 2.7:

• Fixed update of configuration if the FindBugs plug-in is used in conjunction with violations plug-in (report)
• Fixed exception during parsing of FindBugs warnings of priority experimental (issue #1801)

Release 2.6:

• Fixed backward compatibility with Hudson 1.180

Release 2.5:

• Added m2 report aggregation of sub-modules and the main project (issue #1602,issue #1522)
• Added expandable advanced section in plug-in configuration screen
• Added customizable height of trend graph (to prevent scrolling on the main page)
• Removed filename pattern for maven2 builds, since this information is retrieved from the pom
• Fixed bug in trend report generation if build has been terminated without  creating the FindBugs results
• Fixed issue #1560: Generate an unique module name if the pom.xml do contain duplicate names
• Fixed issue #1500: Fixed wrong initialization of cookie (for trend report toggle graph)
• Fixed issue #1547: Don't start publisher if build has been canceled

Release 2.4:

• Added drill-down support for warning severities (issue #733)
• Added support for fbcontrib plug-in (report)
• Fixed issue #1468: Fixed broken trend reports during a running build
• Fixed issue #1501: Replaced link to results of running build to results of last finished build
• Added french localization for messages (thanks to Eric Lefevre)

Release 2.3:

• Fixed issue #1479: don't use logger on remote machine

Release 2.2:

• Added german localization for messages and views
• Fixed missing bug patterns in m2 jobs (see report)
• Upgrade to findbugs 1.3.2 to parse the XML files

Release 2.1:

• Fixed issue #1259: trend graph update only for successful builds
• Fixed issue #1380: high/low priorities are interchanged in trend graph

Release 2.0:

• Replaced self-made parser with parser from the native FindBugs library
• Support for findbugs-maven-plugin 1.2

• Highlighting of single lines as well as line ranges
• Highlighting of multiple line ranges per warning (different color for primary range)
• Extraction of module/project names from FindBugs files
• Added support for native m2 build option of Hudson
• Errors during parsing are reported on an error screen (no build failures anymore)
• Improved detection of source code files (for source highlighting)
• Shows since which build we have zero warnings

Release 1.0-1.18