Re: Xen FuSa meeting tomorrow Tue 17 November

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano,

On 18/11/2020 18:20, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Julien Grall wrote:
> > Hi Stefano,
> > On 18/11/2020 17:43, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >   > If the commercial tool is available "as a service", and its services can
> > > be invoked automatically from the headless Linux container in the
> > > CI-loop, that would work and might solve the issue of the licensing
> > > agreement. Note that Coverity is available "as a service" but I don't
> > > think it can be invoked automatically from a headless Linux container:
> > > typically a human needs to login the web interface to get the results.
> > Xen Project Coverity is invoked from OSStest. We receive e-mail with the
> > number of defects eliminated/found. For new issues, you will get a summary of
> > each of them.
> >
> > If that not what you have in mind for headless Linux, then I am not sure what
> > you are looking for.
> Ah, that's good, I wasn't aware of that about Coverity. I had in mind
> something more like a remote API, maybe a REST API. But getting an email
> back is OK too: we could fetch it and parse it automatically from the
> Linux container.
I know that my team has coverity integrated so we get:
   - ticket cut on new defects
   - a bot commenting on pending code review with defects 
introduced/removed. It is even capable to comment on the line 
introducing the defect.
So you have enough data from coverity to provide some meaningful 
information. :) I don't know whether this is based on just parsing 
e-mails or tools coverity may provide in a paid version.
Cheers,

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Julien Grall