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[Qalab-announce] [ANN] QALab 1.0 released. Maven 1 & 2 plugins

[QALab f. O. <qa...@ob...>]

ObjectLab is proud to announce release 1.0 of QALab for Java 1.4+=0A=0AFurt=
hermore, we are very pleased to announce that QALab was selected =0Aby Borl=
and and is also supported/integrated in JBuilder 2007 as part of =0Athe new=
 TeamInsight team-RAD feature.=0A=0A"We are really excited at the collabora=
tion between ObjectLab and CodeGear"=0Asaid Joe McGlynn, Product Manager fo=
r JBuilder.  "Our engineers were searching =0Afor an innovative way to cons=
olidate and trend key project metrics and we =0Afound a truly wonderful sol=
ution in QALab".=0A=0AObjectLab has worked with Borland's Developer Tools G=
roup ("CodeGear/DevCo")=0Ato make the transition to Maven 2 smooth and rich=
 'out-of-the-box'. =0AQALab itself will remain independent and carry on sup=
porting all platforms.=0A=0AQALab collects and consolidates data from sever=
al QA tools, like PMD, =0ACheckstyle, FindBugs, Cobertura, Simian and PMD C=
PD and keeps track of them =0Aover time. This allows developers, architects=
 and project managers alike =0Ato be presented with a trend of the QA stati=
stics of their project.=0A=0Ahttp://qalab.sourceforge.net =0A=0AQALab works=
 with Ant, Maven 1 and Maven 2 (both via plugins). It generates 2 =0Areport=
s, one based on historical data with tables and charts and the other =0Aone=
 shows the RECENT changes (Movers) over a user defined time window. This =
=0Awill help to filter out the 'background' level of issues that any projec=
t =0Amay have at any point in time.=0A=0AVersion 1.0 is available immediate=
ly for download via SourceForge or the Maven =0ACentral Repository (both Ma=
ven 1 and Maven 2).=0A=0AThis release specifically targets:=0A- Maven 2 sup=
port with fully integrated reports in Maven site=0A- Maven 1 reports are no=
w fully integrated in Maven site.=0A- PMD CPD is now supported.=0A- Each ty=
pe will have its own colour and stroke for charts.=0A=0AQALab should be ava=
ilable on the Maven Central Repo but just in case=0Ayou can point to http:/=
/www.objectlab.co.uk/maven/repository=0A=0AUsed internally since 2003, QALa=
b was open-sourced in 2005 and has finally =0Areached version 1.0!  It is b=
eing used across the world.=0A =0AObjectLab is not new to the open-source c=
ommunity having used numerous OS =0Aprojects, participated in a few and spo=
nsoring:=0A- ObjectLab Kit (http://objectlabkit.sourceforge.net), a date ca=
lculation =0A  toolkit for business and finance;=0A- JTreeMap (http://jtree=
map.sourceforge.net) the only open source heatmap =0A  library for Java .=
=0A- StatSvn (http://www.statsvn.org) Subversion repository statistics.  =
=0A=0AWe would like to thank our friends and colleagues for their help, rev=
iews =0Aand suggestions.=0A=0AFeel free to pass on to people who may be int=
erested.=0A=0AEnjoy!!=0A=0ABenoit Xhenseval and the QALab Team.=0A=0A

[Qalab-announce] CVS to SVN migration

[Marcin J. <ma...@us...>]

Hi All,

I will be migrating the QALab CVS repository to SVN, hopefully tomorrow,
office hours (GMT+2 timezone).

Please bear with us while we go through this process.

Many Thanks,
Marcin Jekot

QALab team

[Qalab-announce] QALab 0.9.1 released!

[Benoit X. <bx...@ob...>]

We are pleased to announce the QALab Stats for Builds 0.9.1 release! 

http://qalab.sourceforge.net

This project collects data from several QA tools, like pmd, checkstyle, 
FindBugs, Cobertura and Simian and keeps track of them overtime. This allows 
developers, architects and project managers alike to be presented with a trend 
of the QA statistics of their project. 

===============================================================================

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Chart axis titles are now configurable. Thanks to David Corley for the 
  suggestion. 
o Following an issue reported by Kelly Goedert, the list items are now 
  trimmed to ignore any space in the "csv" style declaration of summaryType 
  and type. 
o Thanks to Thomas Stofer for providing a test case for this. We added a new 
  parameter hoursOffsetForLastRun for Movers. If you set the 
  setHoursOffsetForLastRun to 0, QALab will expect an EXACT match of the 
  endTimeWindow for the last statistics, if there is no such a stat, it will 
  deduct that the value is now 0. Otherwise it will decide whether it fell 
  down to 0 or not by looking over the last 24h (and if there is no stat, it 
  will assume that it fell to 0). This parameter may be useful for people who 
  create multiple qalab stats for a day. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Changed merge default to action=replace and use timestampdateonly=true. 
o Fix documentation for the mover reports (it accepts a 
  startTimeWindow/endTimeWindow). Thanks to Thomas Stofer.  

We have requested the upload to iBiblio.org.

===============================================================================

MAVEN PLUGIN

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Chart axis titles are now configurable. Thanks to David Corley for the 
  suggestion. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Better doc for installation. Thanks to Jeff Jensen  

===============================================================================
To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://www.vanwardtechnologies.com/repository/
  -DgroupId=net.objectlab
  -DartifactId=maven-qalab-plugin
  -Dversion=0.9.1

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140880/maven-qalab-plugin-0.9.1.jar

Have fun!
-The QALab Stats for Builds development team

[Qalab-announce] Request for QALab Testimonials!

[Benoit X. <bx...@ob...>]

Dear All,

First of all, thanks for subscribing and showing interest in QALab.  It
is a little project but we feel that it really helps to tidy up some
loose ends in SDLC.

I would like to take this opportunity to ask for some user testimonials,
they will appear on a page on the qalab website, coming with the next
version 0.9.1.  A simple paragraph with what QALab is giving you would
be enough.  This is not an endorsement of the company that sponsors
QALab (ObjectLab.co.uk) but just a user testimonial.

We know that the system is in use in government, insurance, telecoms and
banking industries.  It would be great to be able to put names on our site
but we especially would like to hear from you if you have some
original/more interesting feedback!

So, if you feel that you have a positive feedback, get in touch with us
at qalab AT objectlab.co.uk, not the maillist.

You may need to talk to your manager if your company name is to appear
on the site but, once again, this information will not be used for anything
commercial.

Many thanks

Benoit

[Qalab-announce] Version 0.9.0 is released

[Benoit X. <bx...@ob...>]

The ObjectLab team is pleased to announce the release 0.9.0 for:

QALab and Maven 1.x QALab Plugin!=20

THANKS to all contributors.

http://qalab.sourceforge.net

QALAB ---------------------------------------------------

This project collects data from several QA tools, like pmd, checkstyle,=20
FindBugs, Cobertura and Simian and keeps track of them overtime. This =
allows

developers, architects and project managers alike to be presented with a
trend=20
of the QA statistics of their project.=20

Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o Add a default of "checkstyle,pmd,findbugs,simian" for the accepted =
items
in=20
  summary chart (for maven2 plugin).=20
o removed JDK 1.5 dependency, thanks to Jeff Jensen and Thomas Stofer =
for=20
  spotting it (and David Corley!).
o Improved documentation for some parameters.=20
o NEW qalab XML Format: qalab has a version attribute and file now has a =

  valid ID (only alphanumeric/_/.) and a new path attribute. The =
migration
to=20
  the new DTD and format is automatic. If timestamp is a date only, the=20
  format will simply be yyyy-mm-dd without any time.=20
o New movers XML Format: file has also a path attribute that contains =
"/",=20
  this in turn is used in the XSL to create links to the Cobertura =
report. =20

QALab Plugin for Maven ---------------------------------

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o dependency on qalab 0.9.0 (new xml format, automatic migration).=20

  Fixed bugs:

o Bug 1479918 plugin.jelly has hardcoded target path=20
o Bug 1479108 plugin.properties Use ${maven.build.dir}, not=20
  ${basedir}/target/. Thanks to Jeff Jensen for spotting and raising it. =

o Bug 1479992 Maven1: doc wrong on merge action default. Thanks to Jeff=20
  Jensen for spotting and raising it.=20
o Bug 1479994 Maven1: doc wrong on merge timestampdateonly default. =
Thanks
to=20
  Jeff Jensen for spotting and raising it.=20
o Bug 1480016 Maven1: doc error on maven.qalab.chart.destinationdir. =
Thanks=20
  to Jeff Jensen for spotting and raising it.=20
o Bug 1480022 Maven1: doc wrong on maven.qalab.movers.quiet default. =
Thanks=20
  to Jeff Jensen for spotting and raising it.=20
o Bug 1480021 Maven1: doc wrong on maven.qalab.chart.quiet default. =
Thanks
to=20
  Jeff Jensen for spotting and raising it.=20
o Bug 1480025 Maven1: doc wrong on maven.qalab.movers.types default. =
Thanks=20
  to Jeff Jensen for spotting and raising it.=20
o Bug 1479514 Maven1: PMD mergestat call missing quiet attribute. Thanks =
to=20
  Jeff Jensen for spotting and raising it. =20

We have raised the upload requests to iBiblio, feel free to vote for =
them,
may be it will speed the process?
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVENUPLOAD-886
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVENUPLOAD-887

To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single =
line:

maven plugin:download=20
  -DgroupId=3Dnet.objectlab=20
  -DartifactId=3Dmaven-qalab-plugin
  -Dversion=3D0.9.0

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D140880/maven-qala=
b-plu
gin-0.9.0.jar
        =20

Have fun!
-The ObjectLab team
     =20

[Qalab-announce] QALab 0.8.0 released.

[Benoit X. <bx...@ob...>]

The QALab team is pleased to announce the QALab Stats for Builds 0.8.0
release!=20

http://qalab.sourceforge.net

This project collects data from several QA tools, like pmd, checkstyle,=20
FindBugs , Cobertura  and Simian and keeps track of them overtime. This
allows developers,=20
architects and project managers alike to be presented with a trend of =
the QA

statistics of their project.=20

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Include Cobertura (coverage) in supported formats.=20
o First release of the Maven 2 plugin=20
o Welcoming Dave Sag to the dev team (maven2 plugin!).=20
o Replaced javadoc with yDoc (UML diagrams).=20

  Fixed bugs:

o Thanks to Dave Sag for reworking the filename utility.=20
o changed default location for checkstyle raw report from=20
  target/checkstyle-raw-report.xml to=20
  target/checkstyle/checkstyle-raw-report.xml (due to change to the=20
  checkstyle plugin 3.0.1-SNAPSHOT) =20

Have fun!
-The QALab team
     =20

[Qalab-announce] QALab 0.7.2 released.

[Benoit X. <bx...@ob...>]

The ObjectLab team is pleased to announce the release of:
- QALab Stats for Builds 0.7.2
- QALab Maven plugin 0.7.2 !=20

http://qalab.sourceforge.net

This project collects data from several QA tools, like pmd,=20
checkstyle, FindBugs and Simian and keeps track of them=20
overtime. This allows developers, architects and project managers=20
alike to be presented with a trend of the QA statistics of their =
project.=20

---------------------------------------------------

Changes in this version for the QALAB.jar include:

  New Features:

o Added a maillist for QALab annoucements.=20

  Fixed bugs:

o Plug in to use a properties file for qalab.merge.timestampdateonly and =
co.

o When using date only, use midnight as default date.=20
o Maven plug-in adapted to work in a multi-project env.=20
o IMPORTANT!! qalab.xml format changed, 'errorcount' replaced by =
'statval'.=20
  Please change your qalab.xml if you have one (straight find/replace).  =

---------------------------------------------------
QALab Plugin for Maven=20

Changes in this version for QALab Plugin for Maven  include:

  New Features:

o Added RSS feed for the QALab Movers report.=20
o Added RSS feed for the QALab report.=20

  Fixed bugs:

o Plugin to use a properties file for qalab.merge.timestampdateonly and =
co.=20
o Plugin now works with multi-project.=20
o Corrected manual installation guide. Thanks to Nascif Abousalh-Neto =
for=20
  reporting the problem.=20
o Corrected Movers Report for non java files (no links). Thanks to =
Nascif=20
  Abousalh-Neto for reporting the problem.=20

  Changes:

o IMPORTANT!! qalab.xml format changed, 'errorcount' replaced by =
'statval'.=20
  Please change your qalab.xml if you have one (straight find/replace).=20
o Depends on QALab v0.7.2. Please upgrade! =20

To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single =
line:

maven plugin:download=20
  -DgroupId=3Dnet.objectlab=20
  -DartifactId=3Dmaven-qalab-plugin
  -Dversion=3D0.7.2

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D140880/maven-qala=
b-plu
gin-0.7.2.jar
        =20
Have fun!
-The ObjectLab.co.uk team    =20