After you run a code review, you can open the results that
are generated.
Before you begin
You must create a software analysis configuration and run
it against a set of source code files to produce a report.
About this task
The results of a code review are stored in a
history.
In the
Software Analyzer Results view, you can
select a history, interpret its contents, and save the results to
a file. When you run a code review, the software analyzer opens the
Software
Analysis Results view to display the results. This procedure
also includes instructions for opening the view manually.
Procedure
- To open the Software Analyzer Results view:
- Click .
- Click .
- Click OK.
The Software Analyzer Results view
opens. The left pane lists the histories of the code reviews run since the
workbench was last opened. The most recent history is at the
top of the list. Each history is a compilation of the results from
a single code review. Figure 1 shows an example of a list entry
for a history. The entry contains the name of the analysis configuration
used (Cobol Tool Dev 041), the time and date of the code review, the
number of individual results in the history (38), and the processing
time for the code review (0 milliseconds):Figure 1. Left pane: List entry for a history
- In the left pane, click the history that you want to view. The results in the history are displayed in the right
pane.
- Optional: To delete the history, right-click
the entry and click Delete.
- Optional: In the right pane, in the toolbar,
you can switch between two display modes:
- To display all the rules that you selected in the analysis
configuration, even if the code review found no violations of the
rule, click Show all selected rules and results
.
- To display only the selected rules for which the code review
found violations, click Show only rules with results
.
- Expand a rule that contains results and view the results. The results are grouped according to category (such as
Naming Convention and Performance), rule, source file name, and line
number. Figure 2 shows an example of part of a listing.
In the figure, the rule category is Program Structures, a built-in
category. The rule is Avoid ACCEPT statements, a built-in rule, which
is assigned a severity of Warning, indicated by the icon
. Below the rule are listed two results that refer to a source
code location where a problem of this type was found. Each result
contains the severity icon of the rule, the source code file name,
the line number, and the text of the rule.Figure 2. Right pane: List entry for an individual
result
What to do next
To fix a problem reported in a result, see Fixing a problem reported in a result.
To save any of the histories that are displayed
in the Software Analyzer Results view, generate
a report or open the history in a browser and save it to a file on
your workstation. For more information about generating and saving
reports, see Generating and saving reports.