SpotBugs Maven Plugin – Violation Checking

Violation Checking

The spotbugs:check goal allows you to configure your build to fail if any errors are found in the SpotBugs report.

The following code fragment enables the check in a build during the verify phase. The check will fail if any of the filter triggers in the include file are met.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
        <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>4.8.4.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <effort>Max</effort>
          <threshold>Low</threshold>
          <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>