kdepimlibs Coverity Scan Report, Oct 14 2014

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Thu Oct 16 11:29:50 BST 2014


On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Allen,

Hi Gilles,

>
> Just a workflow question : why to export Coverity report to CSV where
> you can send automatically a mail to devel mailing list when scan is
> complete, with a a list of new defect found in code.
>
> I use Coverity since more than one year with whole digiKam code, and
> we have already fixed more than 500 entries detected. The Coverity web
> interface is really more suitable than a export to CSV. Defect are
> very well explained in source context, with all conditions used to
> check implementation.
>
> The only constrain is to have an account for each contributors who
> will fixed entries.

I suspect that is why Allen is sending out the HTML/CSV output -
because not everyone has access and it is helpful to have this
information publicly accessible.

>
> After one year to use this tool, the feedback is really excellent,
> especially to check new code from students.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier

Thanks,
Ben

>
> 2014-10-14 14:30 GMT+02:00 Allen Winter <allen.d.winter at gmail.com>:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Attached is the Coverity Scan report for kdepimlibs 4.14 as of today.
>> You might feel like fixing some of the issues.
>>
>> Let me know if you find false positives or stuff we can ignore (like in test programs).




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