CXX Plugin

Compatibility with Sonar

Description / Features

This plugin adds basic support of C++ language into Sonar.

The following features are implemented since v0.0.1-SNAPSHOT :

• Duplications detection
• Commented-out code detection
• Calculation of basic metrics : 'lines of code', 'physical lines', 'blank lines' and 'comment lines'
• Source code coloriser
• Rules checking (using RATS)

The following features are implemented since v0.0.3 :

• Rules checking with CppCheck
• Cyclomatique complexity with CppNcss
• xUnit test reports
• Code style checking using Vera++
• Coverage reports from Gcov and Gcovr
• Memory fault reports from Valgrind (xml)

The following features are implemented since v0.0.4 :

• CppCheck reports generation
• Full integration with cxx-maven-plugin (pom syntax simplified)
• C++ sample project provided here

Usage & Installation

Simply add the jar file into the plugin directory of sonar.

Deppending tour needs you may :

• install RATS
• install CppCheck
• install CppNcss
• install Vera++ (and cxx-plugin helper vera++Report2checkstyleReport.perl)
• use gcc and gcov and install gcovr from FAST Sandia tools (or cxx-plugin modified version of gcovr.py)
• install Valgrind

More informations from Readme.txt or C++ sample project provided here

Known limitations

TBD

Changelog

0.0.1 initial release with RATS support.

0.0.2 internal developpement release (not available)

0.0.3 first release with Cppcheck, Cppncss, Vera++, Gcov and Valgrind support.

0.0.4 CppCheck reports generation, Full integration with cxx-maven-plugin