I know I have run it in the past, but I wouldn't call it a "part of the system development process."
There are a few issues in JIRA that reference findbugs, a quick search yields this one that I worked on - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3102 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3102>-Wes 2011/1/24 César Couto <cesar...@dcc.ufmg.br> > Dear developers, > > I am a PhD student at UFMG, Brazil and as part of my research I am > making a study about the relevance of the warnings reported by the > FindBugs bug finding tool. > > Since I am planning to use Struts as a subject system in my research, > I would like to know if Strut's developers usually run FindBugs as > > part of the system development process. > > Thanks in advance, > > Cesar Couto > > -- > http://www.decom.cefetmg.br/cesar > -- Wes Wannemacher Head Engineer, WanTii, Inc. Need Training? Struts, Spring, Maven, Tomcat... Ask me for a quote!