On Nov 4, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Hugo Trippaers <h...@trippaers.nl> wrote:
> Hey all, > > At CloudOpen in Edinburgh i joined a presentation on Coverity, a static code > analysis tool. Some of you may have heard of it already, it is famous for > doing the code analysis on the Linux kernel for quite some years already. > They added support for the java language quite a while back. The presenter > dropped by our CloudStack booth and we had a nice chat on static code > analysis. > > You might have guessed the next step, i added CloudStack to the Coverity > scanning service at scan.coverity.com: http://scan.coverity.com/projects/943. > - 1.044.609 lines of code why does Ohloh lists 4.2 M loc when coverty only 1M ? > - 6.70 defect density > - 6997 outstanding defects > > The reasoning is obviously that anything that will help us improve quality > should be considered. However just adding the CloudStack sources to the scan > isn’t going to solve anything. For that we all need to pitch in an help out > with getting the scan results triaged, assigned and fixed. So signup en-masse > and go fix ;-) > > Note to new and aspiring CloudStack developers, don’t know where to start but > you want to help out? This is a great way to get to know the code and the > community. Have a look at one of the open items on Coverity, fix it and > submit it for review at reviews.apache.org. > > Cheers, > > Hugo > > >
