Adium and the clang static analysis tool

[Bradley Bunk]

Good evening,

I am working on a school project in which I have to give a presentation on
a testing tool of choice; I chose the clang static analysis tool. Adium is
one of the few projects I have found that actively uses the tool. I am
curious to know how and or why the community chose and or chooses to use
the tool and or how you integrate it into your build/testing work flow. I
apologize if this is not the intended use of this email list, I could not
find any documentation on clang and or your testing approach in the wiki
(this may be due to my own incompetence and or ignorance.), and I am
genuinely curious to know about it and or to be able to test the code my
self.

thank you for your time,

Bradley Bunk

[Thijs Alkemade]

Post by Bradley Bunk
Good evening,
I am working on a school project in which I have to give a presentation on a testing tool of choice; I chose the clang static analysis tool. Adium is one of the few projects I have found that actively uses the tool. I am curious to know how and or why the community chose and or chooses to use the tool and or how you integrate it into your build/testing work flow. I apologize if this is not the intended use of this email list, I could not find any documentation on clang and or your testing approach in the wiki (this may be due to my own incompetence and or ignorance.), and I am genuinely curious to know about it and or to be able to test the code my self.
thank you for your time,
Bradley Bunk

Hi Bradley,

In the past I’ve used the static analyzer tool a couple of times, mostly for the 1.6 branch if I remember correctly. It is not integrated into our workflow automatically, I’ve only ran it manually.

I don’t actually know any other static analyzers (especially with support for Objective-C), so I can’t answer why I chose it over other things. It worked quite well for me (pros: quite fast, easy to understand the warnings it gives, easy to use), and it’s even integrated with Xcode (thought I didn’t use that myself).

I hope that answers your questions, feel free to ask more, this list is definitely the right place for that.

Best regards,
Thijs Alkemade