SQE Going Real Open Source

Finally we did it. Just take a look at SQE @ Kenai. Get started by cloning the source repository or just download the binary bits and try it out.

SQE - New Year's Eve and 2009

Again - after a long quiet period here some news from SQE - the last one for 2008.

Still, the actual main goal of SQE is to provide a stable release for NetBeans 6.5 .

Here is a list what we have already achieved and what will be part of the next binary drop. It will take a few more days before we can upload it - to allow us to ensure everything is working as expected after the major rewrite we did during Devoxx 2008.

Bug fixes:

• Fixes for numerous NPE, CCE
• use NetBeans 6.5 features where possible (Option Panel...)
  

New features

• codedefect history is now working
  
• further UI enhancements
  • windowgroup for codedefect results
  • move codedefect history to control center
• select checkstyle.xml to use
• even better sorting capability for PMD and Checkstyle results
  

Updates

• Update FindBugs to 1.3.6
• Update PMD to 4.2.4

Upcoming (new things or things already planned)

• Support for configuration of FindBugs and PMD based on Maven pom's
  
• Refresh on save/compile (especially useful for tasklist)
• NetBeans 7.0?
• PMD 5.0
  

Any other ideas, comments, wishes? Just leave your comment here or send an e-mail to the user list at sqe.dev.java.net.

... and don't forget we will be going full OpenSource at http://sqe.kenai.com in 2009 (promised) using Maven as build tool. This possibly allows us to provide different binary drops (e.g. PMD 4.x / PMD 5.x series) and many other exciting things.

Happy New Year 2009 to all of you - and see you in 2009!

SQE and Devoxx 2008

Interested in exchanging ideas how to make SQE better?
Want to share your preferred workflow with the SQE developers?

Meet the SQE Team at Devoxx - just leave a comment and your e-mail - so we can get together over a Belgium beer or just have a chat over breakfast / lunch or a coffee break.

BTW expect some news on SQE for Devoxx - following our tradition we are actually working full steam for a new stable version of SQE compatible and best to use with NetBeans 6.5 Release. More news to follow ...

SQE Issuetracking at netbeans.org

There is now a special NetBeans Issuezilla subcomponent "sqe tools" in "3rd-party" component. With this it is now possible to use the default error reporting and exception reporting inside NetBeans for tracking SQE issues (and nobody has to reenter them somewhere else).

There are already a few issues submitted - is this number a hint for a wide adoption or just for the quality of the SQE code ;-) ? I will look after those, hopefully a lot of them are already fixed with the latest binary bits. For the actual list of open issues click here.

Thanks go Lukas Hasik for taking care of creation of the subcomponent and the work of starting reassigning issues.

SQE, Maven and NetBeans 6.5

After a long quiet period here some news from SQE. The actual main goal of SQE is to provide a stable release for NetBeans 6.5 .

The first milestone towards this is support for Maven based projects. This is now available as a binary preview. Just download the zip-File unpack it and install the nbm's. Since not all the version numbers are actually increased, the binary snapshot requires that you uninstall all previously installed parts of SQE. I hope to find a simple method to fix this problem for one of the next binary previews.

Bug fixes:

• Checkstyle now working under Unix
• A lot of small changes for better project recognition
  

New features

• Maven support
  

Updates

• Checkstyle 5.0 beta 01
  

Upcoming (new things or things already planned)

• Update FindBugs to 1.3.5
• Update PMD to 4.2.3
• Refresh on save/compile (especially useful for tasklist)
• further UI enhancements
  • windowgroup for codedefect results
  • move codedefect history (still not working) to control center
• select checkstyle.xml to use

Any other ideas, comments, wishes? Just leave your comment here or send an e-mail to the user list at sqe.dev.java.net.

SQE - Jazoon 2008 / NetBeans 6.x compatible - Version

Following the tradition to release at least for the big events a new updated version of SQE is available for Jazoon 2008. Unfortunately nobody from SQE team is available at Jazoon or the NetBeans Day in Zurich, but we still work on making SQE better. So here is the summary since last update notification

Bug fixes:

• Problem with configuring (disabling) FindBugs detectors
• Fix NPE in RuleViolationRenderer in case of missing classname
• Enhance pmd annotation message with rule name
• Fixes NPE in SortAction and issues with displaying new results (update problem of resultui)
• Fix issue with display and jump to RuleViolation in case of default package

New features

• Configuration (disabling) of PMD rules (per project/ global)
• Disabling rules/detectors is available via context menu in result view tree for PMD and FindBugs

Updates

• PMD 4.2.2
• FindBugs 1.3.4

Upcoming

• Refresh on save/compile (especially useful for tasklist)
• further UI enhancements
  • windowgroup for codedefect results
  • move codedefect history (still not working) to control center
• configurable checkstyle.xml (at least)
• use native PMD file format for storing configuration
• use native FindBugs format for storing configuration
• quick-fix for disabling detectors (still under evaluation)
• enable filtering for defects (available but not functional)
  
• RefactorIt integration (still far future)

Get the latest version as always via updatecenter or download the module containing the updatecenter description from here.

Since I still have problems with kit versioning vs. module versioning you may have to delete your sqe1 cluster from your installation, since the IDE does not seem to pick up the changes in the modules not shown in the plugin manager. I hope I will find out how to use this correctly for the next update...

SQE - BugFix

The latest published version contained two minor issues

• Java Classes with default package resulted in NPE during trying to annotate (#41)
  
• Wrong thread usage for Retouche

An update is available.

SQE - JavaOne 2008 / NetBeans 6.1 - Version

There is a new version of SQE uploaded to the SQE-UpdateCenter.

Consider this still an alpha version. New in this snapshot:

• SQE Control Center (modeled after Profiler UI)
• pre-configure codedefect tools that will be run on a project (per project basis)
• JumpToSource should now work for most use cases
• new editor buttons for switching annotations on/off (per project basis)
• better tasklist integration for FindBugs Result
  
• Experimental support for dependency analysis
• Experimental information topcomponent for projects (should help verifying the project setup)

Additionally a lot of issues have been fixed:

• problems running under unix
• problems with accessing sqe.properties
• problems with changes in 6.1 filesystem access
  
• .... (see issue list at sqe.dev.java.net)

Upcoming

• Refresh on save/compile (especially useful for tasklist)
• further UI enhancements (windowgroup for codedefect results)
• configurable checkstyle.xml (at least)
• fix pmd configuration problems
• fix findbugs configuration problems
• quick-fix for disabling detectors (still under evaluation)
• RefactorIt integration (still far future)

So check it out and give your feedback.

Since not all spec versions may have been increased you may better delete your old sqe1 cluster and start with a fresh installation following the described procedure. The source is still not available but we are really trying to get it out (promised).

RefactorIt open sourced

Behind the scenes a couple of people were already talking about RefactorIt going open source, after already providing it for free. This enables the community to port RefactorIt to NetBeans 6 (this was not available up to now). Additionally all the nice metric and audit algorithm and functions can now be integrated in your favourite IDE. So any volunteers out there?

For a start head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/refactorit/ and get the source! It seems this is not a very NetBeans friendly source layout - but this should prove no difficulty for real NetBeans developers. So, whish you happy hacking and expect new features based on the RefactorIt code to be integrated in SQE.