Coming QALab: Emma, XML FindBugs, new XML, new Chart & more!

I thought that it may be interesting to do something that Microsoft has been doing for years, like announcing a coming release of something... The difference is that, this is not vapo(u)rware, it will turn up!

http://qalab.sourceforge.net.

So, what are the items we're working on?

• Emma support is coming, thanks to the contribution of Robert Crawford.


• Support for the XML output from Findbugs (rather than the xdoc one), some people had to run findbugs twice due to this limitation.


• A new Spider Chart will show 3 snapshots of multi-dimensional data at 0, 30 and 90 days. You'll be able to see what is happening at a glance!


• Automatic migration of the QALab XML to a new format that will also add the notion of "project" and "module" making it more hierarchical... one step closer to aggregation!


• a bit of code re-org to keep the house tidy!


• Some experimental work with storing QALab stats in a DB

So... when will it be available? Like cooking, it will be ready when it's ready... but for the impatient type, all these features are in Subversion!

Finally, we're willing to add more tools and are welcoming contributions, especially for Clover! Should not be difficult... Our main problem is that there are only 24 hours in a day!

Until next time,

Benoit

First post... why a combined blog?

Welcome to the ObjectLab Open Source News.

Our company, ObjectLab Financial Ltd is quite involved in some open source projects. We believe that, as a whole, this family of open source projects can help you.

So what are they?

• QALab, our first project. It keeps track of QA statistics over time based on Checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs, Cobertura, Simian and more to come!


• ObjectLab Kit, a series of Date calculators for business and finance. It is Apache 2.0 so feel free!


• JTreeMap, the only open source Apache 2.0 HeatMap solution for java!


• StatSVN, a cool way to discover who has done what and when in your Subversion repository (sorry we cannot help on the 'why' they did it!)


• PZFileReader, a parser for delimited or fixed-length text. It is not as easy as it sounds... very flexible.


• StatCVS, same as StatSVN but for CVS (we just contributed a bit...)

So, why a combined blog? So you can keep track of the news for all our projects in one place!

All news releases will announced here!

Cheers

Benoit & the rest of the team.