Plugin Information

This plugin generates the trend report for PMD, an open source static code analysis program. 

Description

 
The PMD plug-in scans for pmd.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
• Several trend reports showing the number of warnings per build
• 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 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 PMD 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
• Works with the freestyle and native m2 build option of Hudson (activated on goal pmd:pmd or site)
• Localization available for: DE (Please help to localize PMD 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

Release 2.13

• Fixed display of source code browsing of old builds

Release 2.11

• Copy affected files to build folder to provide source code browsing of old builds

Release 2.10

• Source code display is limited to authenticated users (issue #2773)

Release 2.9

• Added remote API for the plug-in results (report: thanks to Rob Oxspring for the patch)

Release 2.8

• Added new trend graphs and a configuration screen per job or per user.

Release 2.7

• Consider build thresholds only for the parent module in m2 multi-module jobs (issue #3310)
• Fixed NPE in m2 builds (issue #3400, issue #3399)
• Improved computation of new warnings detection (report)

Release 2.5

• Fixed build health reporting and failure thresholds for native m2 builds (issue #3310).

Release 2.4

• Additional build status thresholds: now you can set the build status to unstable or failure if the total number of the number of new warnings exceeds the defined thresholds (issue #2537, issue #3024).
• Improved new warning detection: now warnings are only considered as new if the associated source code context (3 lines of code) differs.

Release 2.3

• Added validation of file pattern in configuration screen
• Upgrade to PMD 4.2.4

Release 2.2

• Fixed priority evaluation radio buttons in configuration screen (issue #2805)

Release 2.0

• Added new configuration entry "default encoding" that is used when the plug-in reads or parses files (issue #1999)

Release 1.x ChangeLog