Configuring Findbugs in Jenkins - maven

Question

My goal is to fail jenkins build for my project in case bugs are reported by FindBugs plugin. For that I have integrated FindBugs config in the project's pom.xml & the execution part of the config is below
<executions>
<execution>
<id>analyze-compile</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals><goal>check</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<threshold>High</threshold>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
I found the above config from online sources & with this config, the project is not failing incase of bugs reported by FindBugs. Also I have tried other configs like below
<xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
<configuration>
<failOnError>${findbugs.failOnError}</failOnError>
<threshold>High</threshold>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>noFailOnError</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<failOnError>false</failOnError>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>failOnError</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<failOnError>true</failOnError>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
Can someone please let me know what is the correct execution which needs to be used for failing build in case of bugs in FindBugs ?

Answer 1

Below is the correct configuration for find-bugs in pom.xml. It does the following - Perform FindBugs check, Generate xml report during verify phase , Transform it to html & Fail build in case bugs are present during check
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>findbug</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<effort>Max</effort>
<threshold>Low</threshold>
<findbugsXmlOutputDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/findbugs
</findbugsXmlOutputDirectory>
<failOnError>false</failOnError>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>transform</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<transformationSets>
<transformationSet>
<dir>${project.build.directory}/findbugs</dir>
<outputDir>${project.build.directory}/findbugs</outputDir>
<stylesheet>fancy-hist.xsl</stylesheet>
<!--<stylesheet>default.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<!--<stylesheet>plain.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<!--<stylesheet>fancy.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<!--<stylesheet>summary.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<fileMappers>
<fileMapper
implementation="org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.filemappers.FileExtensionMapper">
<targetExtension>.html</targetExtension>
</fileMapper>
</fileMappers>
</transformationSet>
</transformationSets>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>failing-on-high</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>findbugs</goal>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<effort>Max</effort>
<threshold>Low</threshold>
<failOnError>true</failOnError>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>