I am in the middle of trying to integrate the Maven Spotbugs plugin into my project's pom.xml file and make it so that it will generate a report in the "Project Reports" section after running the "mvn site" command. I am able to get other reports, such as PMD, CPD, and Xref to generate, but Spotbugs is given me a lot of trouble. The command line states that the report is successfully configuring, but never generating. I have what seems to be all the required dependencies, build, and report configurations. I've tried all kinds of solutions from the Spotbugs github site, the SpotBugs documentations, multiple forums and tutorials, and nothing seems to fix my problem.
Could anybody give me a very detailed step-by-step on how to incorporate the Spotbugs Maven plugin via the pom file? I am very new to Maven and could use some help! If I need to include any files, let me know that as well.
Solved - spotbugs was requiring me to include all required configurations before it worked for some reason. I believe it worked after adding the following under the reporting section of the pom:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
<artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${spotbugs.version}</version>
<configuration>
<effort>Max</effort>
<threshold>Default</threshold>
<spotbugsXmlOutput>true</spotbugsXmlOutput>
<spotbugsXmlOutputDirectory>target/site</spotbugsXmlOutputDirectory>
<skipEmptyReport>false</skipEmptyReport>
<encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
<includeTests>true</includeTests>
<classFilesDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</classFilesDirectory>
<spotbugs.xmlOutput>true</spotbugs.xmlOutput>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>jp.skypencil.findbugs.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>bug-pattern</artifactId>
<version>1.4.0</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</configuration>
<reportSets>
<reportSet>
<reports>
<report>spotbugs</report>
</reports>
</reportSet>
</reportSets>
</plugin>