Hi,I'd love to, but I've got too many things going. But the feature I really want to see is historical data of these metrics.
We have lots of very nice code quality reports: checkstyle, pmd, simian, findbugs, activity, jdepend, clover, etc. However, having these reports is not enough to make the problems go away.
One idea that may help is to provide a global dashboard for all projects (as part of the multiproject plugin). For example:
Project name | Checkstyle | Clover | PMD | ... |
Project1 | 500 | 60% | 70 | ... | Project2 | 1500 | n/a | 35 | ... | [...]
(being able to sort on columns would be even nicer)
Even better would be a "overall score" but that will probably be too difficult to achieve and will make sense only for projects using the same reports and the same rules inside each reports.
Anyway, on my project at work we have several hundreds of projects and it's just downright impossible to get a nice view of all checks for all projects and see which project needs to get more quality focus than others. Such a view would make it possible.
My belief is that once we get that dashboard, some competition may emerge between projects and people will start paying more attention to the reports.
What do you think? Anyone fancy doing this? :-)
That way, it is possible to generate graphs showing various trends in the codebase.
This is a lot more valuable than just looking at a static snapshot of the current codebase. You get a feel of
when code coverage dropped, code duplication increased etc.
Now I think this is a separate project, and should be decoupled from Maven.
Aslak
Thanks -Vincent
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