Overview
PMDReports is a wrapper around the popular open-source Java code analysis and bug detection tool, PMD. Whereas PMD generates and displays code quality statistics at a source code level, PMDReports persists and aggregates these statistics so that code quality can be viewed from a more macro, component level. From this "elevated" perspective, development team members can begin to better understand:
- Which components in a project have the best or worst code quality?
- As development continues, is code quality improving? Or getting worse?
- How does code quality in this project compare to other projects?
Sample Reports
Below is a sample Component Comparison Report generated from PMDReports. It shows PMD code quality violations for each component in a project, organized by PMD ruleset (note: violation numbers are per thousand lines of code). To highlight which components best adhere to code quality standards, those components with violations that are below a minimum pre-defined benchmark are displayed in green, and similarly those with violations above a pre-defined maximum benchmark are displayed in red.
By contrast, a Component History Report shows code quality violations for components over time rather than at a snapshot view. To help the user visualize trends in code quality, if violations for a specific component have gotten worse, these violations will be displayed in red, and vice-versa if violations have gotten better, they will be displayed in green. Note that, again, violations are scaled per thousand lines of code.
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