This plugin scans the workspace files for open tasks and generates a trend report.

 Description

 
The tasks scanner plug-in scans the workspace files for open tasks like TODO, FIXME, or @deprecated. It is inspired by the maven taglist plug-in. This plug-in is part of the suite of static code analysis plug-ins that are documented on a separate WIKI page.

• You can specify the files to scan after a build
• Three configurable priority levels are supported (e.g. HIGH=FIXME, NORMAL=TODO, LOW=@deprecated)
• Trend reports showing the number of tasks in corresponding colors
• Overview of the found tasks per module or package
  • 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 tasks filtered by severity
• Colored HTML display of the corresponding source files and with direct links to the tasks
• Highlighting of the line that contains a task (with a tool tip showing the priority)
• Failure threshold to mark a build as unstable
• Configurable project health support
• 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 task scanner 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.

 Configuration

Configuring the plugin should be self-explanatory: You simply need to activate the task scanner plugin as shown below. Add the tag keywords you would like to use and save the configuration. Then the next build will report the number of open tasks and show the trend.

Changelog

Release 2.12:

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

Release 2.11:

• Fixed wrong class hierarchy in m2 reporter (issue #2155)

Release 2.10:

• Fixed module aggregation for m2 builds (issue #2153)
• For unknown packages now the name "unknown" is used rather than "n/a" (issue #2132)

Release 2.9:

• 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)
• Fixed count of scanned files for m2 projects (issue #2113)

Release 2.8:

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

Release 2.7:

• New result UI with drill-down and statistics of modules, packages, severities, overview, and details
• 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)
• Added file exclusion pattern to exclude certain files from being scanned (thanks to Brendt for providing the patch!)

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)
• Fixed bug in trend report generation if build has been terminated without creating the Tasks 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 task priorities

Release 2.3:

• Module statistics now shows module names of pom.xml for maven projects (rather than the module path segment)
• 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 2.2:

• Added german localization for messages and views

Release 2.1:

• Fixed issue #1259: trend graph update only for successful builds
• Fixed issue #1381: multiple invocations of task scanner in one module

Release 2.0

• Added support for the native maven2 build option of Hudson
• Number of scanned files is now shown in the build summary
• New icons
• Fixed issue #965 and issue #1296

Release 1.0-1.14