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RE: [eclipse-dev] Found a few hundred bugs in Eclipse
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The Eclipse plug-in makes it more convenient to use but if it were licensed with CPL or Apache instead of LGPL then it could potentially be integrated into the JDT, or at the very least be distributed with Eclipse-based 3rd party applications. That could help not just Eclipse but anything built with the Eclipse IDE.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Pugh
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:23 PM
> To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [eclipse-dev] Found a few hundred bugs in Eclipse
>
>
> We're working on a open source static analysis tool, called
> FindBugs,
> for finding a number of different kinds
> of bugs or antipatterns in Java programs. We've founds lots
> of bugs in
> most large Java programs we've looked
> at, including Eclipse. Our tool generates 810 medium/high warnings
> about correctness problems in Eclipse 3.0. From
> past experience, we believe that corresponds to hundreds of
> real bugs
> (we generally have a less than 50% false
> positive rate) [Note: 810 warnings come from all code in all
> jar files
> shipped with Eclipse, which includes some
> third-party libraries]
>
> We'd love to get some people in the Eclipse project to start
> using our
> tool. We use Eclipse, have an Eclipse
> plugin, and even got an Eclipse innovation award for work on our tool.
>
> However, part of our research is to see if other people think
> our tool
> is finding bugs that they believe
> warrant fixing. So we'd really love for people in the Eclipse
> project
> to start using our tool, rather than
> having us submit separate bug reports for each bug.
>
> We'd love to work with anyone interested in applying our tool to
> Eclipse, and we are always interested in feedback
> on improving the accuracy of our existing bug detectors and
> writing new
> ones.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Pugh
>
> FindBugs: http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
>
