FindBugs is another library that we can use to analyze our source code. To use FindBugs in our Gradle builds, we will simply have to apply the findbugs
plugin. We can either apply one source code analysis plugin to our project or we can apply multiple plugins. Each tool has different features. It just depends on what we want to check or what is prescribed per company policy. The plugin will add the findbugsMain
and findbugsTest
tasks to analyze the source code from the main and test source sets. If we have a custom source set, then the findbugs<SourceSet>
task is also added to the plugin. These tasks are all dependency tasks for the check
task.
Just as with the other code quality plugins, the FindBugs dependencies are not included with Gradle, but they will be downloaded the first time we use findbugs
tasks. We must include a repository definition that will enable Gradle to find the FindBugs dependencies. To change the FindBugs version that is being used, we...