Plugin Information
This plugin scans the workspace files for open tasks and generates a trend report.
 | Installation Requirements
This plug-in requires the utility plug-in "analysis-core" (called "Static Analysis Utilities" in the update manager). Please ensure that the latest version of this plug-in is also installed. |
Description
This plug-in is supported by the Static Analysis Collector plug-in that collects different analysis results and shows the results in aggregated trend graphs. Additionally, health reporting and build stability is also based on the aggregated results.
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)
- Several trend reports showing the number of tasks per build
- 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)
- Remote API to export the build quality and found open tasks
- Localization available for: DE, JA (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 4.10
- Fixed computation of module names for maven projects (issue #6768)
- Don't report an error message if a maven module does not contain a report file (issue #6895)
- Fixed ant links (issue #6862)
Release 4.9
- Fixed naming of maven modules (issue #6513)
- Group files by path if there is no package or namespace found (issue #6698)
Release 4.8
Release 4.7
- Fixed broken links to project page and overview image (issue #6417)
Release 4.6
- Added trend graph portlets for the dashboard view
- Added option to start the plug-in even for failed builds (issue #6117)
- Added 'enlarge' link for trend graphs that shows a detail page with the graph
- Fixed ordering of warnings in detail views (issue #6132)
- Fixed warning distribution graph in files detail view (issue #6139)
Release 4.4
Release 4.3
- New warnings computation is now based on the current build and the reference build (i.e., the last successful build, see issue #5147)
- Visualized plug-in build status (based on the healthiness thresholds)
- Added high scores for successful builds
- Don't show project action if there are no warnings (issue #5473)
- Don't show trend graph configuration on job creation (issue #5294)
- Improved remote API, now the warning keys are also exposed (issue #5195)
Release 4.2
Release 4.1
- Include test sources and resources when scanning the workspace of maven projects (issue #5136)
- Fixed permissions for viewing the source code, now the WORKSPACE permission is used
- Fixed trend report link if there are no results available yet (issue #5156)
- Fixed preview of trend reports
- Added dependency to Hudson 1.337 due to a class loader bug in previous versions (issue #4993)
Release 4.0
- Extracted common code of the static code analysis plug-ins into a new utility plug-in "analysis-core"
- Several bug fixes and small improvements
Release 1.x - 3.x ChangeLog
Comments (14)
Aug 31, 2007
Anonymous says:
Love this plugin! can't wait until it aggregates all the tasks/source into a...Love this plugin! can't wait until it aggregates all the tasks/source into a list that users can see.
Sep 05, 2007
Anonymous says:
Hi, seems to be a cool plugin, unfortunately I don't get the Task-Icon (just a b...Hi, seems to be a cool plugin, unfortunately I don't get the Task-Icon (just a broken-image icon)). The url the image referes is "http://<ourserver>/hudson/plugin/tasks/icons/tasks-48x48.png" and on the menu "http://<ourserver>/hudson/plugin/tasks/icons/tasks-24x24.png"
If you can fix that it would be great
Sep 05, 2007
Anonymous says:
Another Comment: The "Open Task Trend" only updates when a full refresh is done ...Another Comment: The "Open Task Trend" only updates when a full refresh is done (Ctrl-F5).
You should add a timestamp or anthing else to your request, so the graph is regenerated.
Daniel
Sep 05, 2007
Kohsuke Kawaguchi says:
Please use the issue tracker for recording RFEs and issues.Please use the issue tracker for recording RFEs and issues.
Nov 28, 2007
Michael Vorburger says:
Had a little bit of trouble installing this plug-in... it downloads as ZIP and n...Had a little bit of trouble installing this plug-in... it downloads as ZIP and not as .HPI. But once renamed the .zip to .hpi (no unzip) and uploaded via the /hudson/managePlugins console (it didn't work when I just unzipped it into the $HUDSON_HOME/plugins) and restarted, all is well.
And it looks good! And useful. Thank you.
Feb 16, 2008
Anonymous says:
We have sources in utf-8 and comments not in english. Plugin shows tasks in weir...We have sources in utf-8 and comments not in english. Plugin shows tasks in weird symbols. This is also true for links to source files. Like
High Priority: FIXME
File: VisualComponentHelper.java
Line 100: Если модель РёР- начально содержала неверное
Browser is setup to view page in utf-8.
How can i fix that?
Feb 27, 2008
Anonymous says:
nice to know: Do not use file patterns like */.jsp, in case *.jsp are p...nice to know:
Do not use file patterns like */.jsp, in case *.jsp are present in the target directory, you get twice the tasks.
Use */src//.jsp instead.
Feb 27, 2008
Anonymous says:
Wiki markup misformed the file patterns, should be Do not use file pattern...Wiki markup misformed the file patterns, should be
Do not use file patterns like **/.jsp, in case *.jsp are present in the target directory, you get twice the tasks.
Use **/src/**/*.jsp instead.
Mar 06, 2008
Simon von Janowsky says:
Sorry, i posted an anonymous child element on the page, please remove it, since ...Sorry, i posted an anonymous child element on the page, please remove it, since i am not privileged to.
I wrote the text again as a comment....
Simon.
Mar 06, 2008
Simon von Janowsky says:
Hi all, don't know if this is a bug or not, but the task scanner doesn't work c...Hi all,
don't know if this is a bug or not, but the task scanner doesn't work correctly,
for the graphic there is a broken link on the status page.
I upgraded Hudson to 1.88 and the Scanner to 2.0
An Exception ist thrown and shown on the webpage:
javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Object cannot be cast to hudson.plugins.tasks.TasksResult
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:370)
org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$15.dispatch(MetaClass.java:361)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:361)
org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$9.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:240)
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:30)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:361)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:298)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:98)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:88)
Greetings from germany,
Simon.
Mar 06, 2008
Simon von Janowsky says:
the problem arose when throwing the 1.88 hudson.war into the tomcat webapps cont...the problem arose when throwing the 1.88 hudson.war into the tomcat webapps container and was not deployed corectly... so 1.86 was running with tasks 2.0.... I had to setup Hudson new to get the tasks running again....
greetz,
Simon.
Apr 23, 2008
Corneil du Plessis says:
I get the following exception, there are also a lot of exception during startup ...I get the following exception, there are also a lot of exception during startup for task-2.4.
What should be deleted for the task plugin upgrade to work?
Scanning workspace files for tasks...
FATAL: java.lang.Object
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Object
at hudson.plugins.tasks.TasksPublisher.perform(TasksPublisher.java:143)
May 01, 2008
Lukasz says:
If you use keyword like WARNING then it is going to report variables and any str...If you use keyword like WARNING then it is going to report variables and any strings that have it like
Stirng WARNINGS ="asdf"; IMHO it should look for keyword + ' '.
May 22, 2008
Ulli Hafner says:
Please use the issue tracker for improvements and defects. I created one for you...Please use the issue tracker for improvements and defects. I created one for you: issue #1738