Re: Xen FuSa meeting tomorrow Tue 17 November

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

On 18/11/2020 19:01, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Julien Grall wrote:
> > 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.
> Excellent. Yeah, that is the kind of level of integration that we need.
I have asked the person in charge if he could provide more details how 
this was setup and the complexity to get it working. I will let you know 
when I have an answer.
Cheers,

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Julien Grall