FindBugs incorporates an ability to perform sophisticated queries on bug databases and track warnings across multiple versions of code being studied, allowing you to do things such as seeing when a bug was first introduced, examining just the warnings that have been introduced since the last release, or graphing the number of infinite recursive loops in your code over time.
These techniques all depend upon the XML format used by FindBugs for storing warnings. These XML files usually contain just the warnings from one particular analysis run, but they can also store the results from analyzing a sequence of software builds or versions.
Any FindBugs XML bug database contains a version name and timestamp. FindBugs tries to compute a timestamp from the timestamps of the files that are analyzed (e.g., the timestamp is intended to be the time the class files were generated, not analyzed). Each bug database also contains a version name. Both the version name and timestamp can be set manually using the setBugDatabaseInfo command.
A multiversion bug database assigns a sequence number to each version of the analyzed code. These sequence numbers are simply successive integers, starting at 0 (e.g., a bug database for 4 versions of the code will contain versions 0..3). The bug database will also record the name and timestamp for each version. The filterBugs command allows you to refer to a version by sequence number, name or timestamp.
You can take a sequence (or pair) of single version bug databases and create from them a multiversion bug database, or combine a multiversion bug database with a sequence of later single-version bug databases.
Requirements:
· JDK 1.5.0
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