Coverity Jenkins Plugin

• Overview
• Compatibility
• Features
• How to Use
  • Getting Started
  • Freestyle Job Setup
  • Build Results
  • Project Configuration Settings
    • Coverity Build Action Settings
    • Coverity Post-build Action Settings
  • Pipeline Setup
    • Using Coverity Static Analysis Tools
    • Publishing Coverity results
    • Example Script
• Troubleshooting
• Known Issues
  • Compatibility with other Jenkins plugins
• Upgrade Notes
• Support
• Changelog

Overview

This plugin integrates Coverity Connect and Analysis with the Jenkins Continuous Integration Server. (Synopsys Static Analysis Tool (Coverity))

See https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Coverity+Plugin for more Jenkins Plugin specific information.

Compatibility

The following is the plugin version compatability with Coverity Connect server and Coverity Static Analysis Tools.

Plugin version	Coverity Connect / Static Analysis version
1.7.0 to 1.8.1	7.5.1 to 8.7.0
1.9.0 to 1.9.1	7.7.0 to 8.7.1
1.9.2	7.7.0 to 2017.07+
1.10.0+	8.0.0 to 2017.07+

Features

The Coverity plugin for Jenkins performs four functions:

• It can transparently invoke the Coverity Static Analysis tools during your build (optional)
• It can transparently invoke the Coverity Test Advisor tools during your build (optional)
• It can fail the build if defects are found matching certain criteria
• It reports found defects after the build

How to Use

Getting Started

1. Install the plugin using the Plugin Manager, and restart Jenkins.
2. Configure Coverity tools (Manage Jenkins > Global Tool Configuration)
   • Add Coverity Static Analysis Tools:
     • Add one or more tools, configuring tools for multiple platforms can be managed here. The tools named 'default' will take priority, otherwise the tools path can be configured (or overwritten) per node and/or job configuration.
     • Note: In Jenkins prior to Jenkins 2, global tools are in Configure System
3. Configure Coverity global settins (Manage Jenkins > Configure System)
   • Add connection details for the Coverity Connect instance
     • Add Credential to store Coverity Connect username and password (managed through Credentials Plugin). Coverity plugin supports only the "Username with Password" credential kind.
     • Click Check to validate your settings and Coverity user account permissions
4. Configure Node specific tools (if necessary)
   • If preferred, the 'default' tools path can be overridden by setting a Tools Location in the Node configuration settings
     • The tools used can also be configured (or overwritten) per job configuration if this works better for your distributed build architecture

Freestyle Job Setup

1. Create the job, by creating it from scratch or copying from an existing job.
2. Under Build, select Add build step and select Invoke Coverity Capture Build, if needed.
   • If no Invoke Coverity Capture Build is provided, the Coverity Plugin will transparently invoke the build capture for all build steps during your build.
3. Under Post-build Actions, select Add post-build action and select Coverity.
4. Select the Coverity Connect instance, project and stream relevant for this job.
5. If you want the plugin to invoke cov-build/cov-analyze/cov-commit-defects for you, check Perform Coverity build, analysis and commit. You can add additional arguments for each of these tools, and configure the intermediate directory used (all optional).
6. If your build already invokes Coverity, leave the checkbox unchecked.
7. If you want to fail the build when defects are found, check the corresponding checkbox. By default all defects are considered, but you can specify filters. Every filter should match for a defect to be included.
8. If you want the plugin to invoke test and Test Advisor functions for you, check Perform Coverity Test Advisor and Commit. You can add additional arguments and functionality to the build by entering your source control configurations (optional).

Build Results

After a build has completed, a link to Coverity Defects will be available on the build page.

On the project page, a graph with historical defect counts will be visible (as soon as more than one build has been performed).

Project Configuration Settings

To access the Coverity Plugin Configuration dialog, first choose a project in your Jenkins server, and select Configure. Coverity-specific settings are available under the Build and Post-build Actions sections.

Coverity Build Action Settings

The Coverity build action has the following options:

Option	Description
Builder	Select the build step which will be wrapped with cov-build. Note that if Coverity Capture Build step is not added, then all build steps are wrapped.

Coverity Post-build Action Settings

The Coverity post-build action has the following options:

Option	Description
Check configuration	Click to verify that the connection to a stream in Coverity Connect is configured correctly.
Coverity Connect instance	The Coverity Connect instance selection (from global configuration).
Project	The Project which contains the Stream to commit and fetch defects.
Stream	The Stream to commit and fetch defects.
Defect Filters	Select defects according to Classification, Action, Severity, Impact, Component, Checker, or Date first detected.
Perform Coverity build, analysis, and commit	When this option is selected, Jenkins will monitor the build using cov-build, run the analysis, and commit defects to Coverity Connect. Various arguments can be specified to optimize the build process.
Perform Coverity Test Advisor and Commit	Make settings for Test Advisor Configuration, and Coverage Configuration settings specific to C/C++, C#, and Java.
Source Control Configuration 'SCM' (optional)	Make settings to enable retrieval of the version history from source control.
Fail the build if matching defects are found	Fail the build if defects are found that pass all the defect filters.
Mark build as unstable if matching defects are found	Mark the build as unstable if defects are found that pass all the defect filters.
Do not fetch defects after the build	Select this if builds are slow or fetching defects is taking too many resources.
Preserve the intermediate directory after each build	Keep the intermediate directory after a build. This will only have an effect is a non-default intermediate directory is chosen.
Hide the defects chart on the project page	Hide the defects chart on the project page. This setting can speed up page loads when there are a large number of defects or builds.

Coverity Advanced Parsing

The Coverity plugin now provides an optional Coverity parser for interpreting commands that are executed on a Jenkins instance. If Use advanced parsing mechanism is selected, the Coverity parser is used instead of the default Jenkins parser. Either parser interprets environmental variables entered on the command line with a Jenkins command. The following rules describe how the Coverity parser interprets environmental variables.

The value of an environmental variable is passed into an array as follows. For example, if the variable VAR has the value “Some value”:

• If the variable is listed in the form $VAR, then it is interpreted as [Some, value].

• Double quotes: If listed as “$VAR”, then it is interpreted as [some value].

• String literals: If listed as ‘$VAR’, using single quotes, then it is interpreted as [$VAR].

• As with the bash shell, single quotes escape double quotes and conversely double quotes escape single quotes. For example:

  ”’”a”’”   - >   [‘a’]
  ’”’a’”’   - >   [“a”]
  

• Concatenated environment variables are also supported. For example:

  If VAR1=ABC and VAR2=123
  $VAR1$VAR2   - >   [ABC123]
  

• Environment variables can be concatenated to a string. For example:

  ${VAR1}DEF -> [ABCDEF]
  

How the Coverity parser works

The Coverity parser works in two stages, interpolation and tokenization. In the interpolation stage, the values of the command line arguments (variables) are resolved. For example, if you have the following environmental variables:

VAR1=Hello
VAR2=$VAR3
VAR3=$VAR4
VAR4=World
VAR5="$VAR1 $VAR2"
VAR6=$VAR1 $VAR2

Then the variables VAR5 and VAR6 are resolved as follows:

VAR5  - > "Hello World"
VAR6  - > Hello World

In the tokenization stage, the plugin splits up the resolved values (strings) and places them into an array.  

Following the example above:

VAR5  - > [Hello World]
VAR6  - > [Hello, World]

Note that the “Hello World” string, surrounded by unescaped quotes, is placed into the array as a single value, and the quotes are removed. The unquoted Hello World string is split into two array elements. 

Pipeline Setup

The Coverity plugin has basic support for some pipeline functionality. It provides a withCoverityEnv step to wrap tool invocations and a coverityResults step to retrieve issues from a Coverity Connect View. In order to use these steps you will be required to setup Coverity tools in global tool configuration and a Coverity Connect instance in global configuration (see Getting Started for details).

Using Coverity Static Analysis Tools

• Recommended usage:

withCoverityEnv('default') {
  // execute any coverity commands with either `sh` or `bat` script step
  //  (all Coverity Tools in /bin available on PATH)
}

• This will use the Coverity Static Analysis Tools installation named 'default' and add '/bin' directory to PATH within the scope of this Build Wrapper.
• Hint: Use the Pipeline Syntax Snippet Generator for the withCoverityEnv to ensure you've selected a configured tool installation
• Other usage options using the tool step:
  • With a variable in the script to access coverity tools directory, example:

  def covHome = tool name: 'default', type: 'coverity'
  sh "${covHome}/bin/cov-build --dir idir <build-command>"
  // followed by other coverity commands (using "${covHome}/bin")
  

  • Manually update the env.PATH in script

  env.COV_HOME = tool name: 'default', type: 'coverity'
  env.PATH="${env.COV_HOME }:${env.PATH}" // on windows node use ;
  sh "cov-build --dir idir <build-command>"
  // followed by other coverity commands (all in /bin available on PATH)
  

  • You may also combine withEnv with the tool step to set a Coverity tools directory to any environment variable
• The tools directory will be resolved for the Node which executes the pipeline (see Getting Started for details on tools installations and locations per node)
• For tools commands which require a Coverity Connect username and password it is recommended to use the withCredentials step and access a configured credentialId for username with password
• Note that as with any Coverity tools execution the build/analyze/commit steps must share the same intermediate directory value (see the Coverity Analysis User and Administrator Guide for more details)

Publishing Coverity results

• The plugin offers a coverityResults step which will retrieve issues from a configured Coverity Connect Instance, Project, and View. By adding this step the pipeline will include any found issue results in the same manner as Build Results for a pipeline.
• Example Usage:

coverityResults connectInstance: 'cov-connect', connectView: 'JenkinsPipelineView', projectId: 'my project'

• Use the Pipeline Syntax Snippet Generator to get help choosing a Coverity Connect Instance and verifying the Project and View values
• Advanced options are available to fail the pipeline or mark the pipeline as unstable if any issues were found in the Coverity Connect View (use failPipeline or unstable, these both default to false).
• The View can be configured within the Coverity Connect User Interface (use the same user credentials which will connect during the pipeline run). See the Coverity Platform User and Administrator Guide for information on configuring views.
  • The View must be configured as an "Issues: By Snapshot" View Type. This can ensure the most recently committed issues are used, by keeping the default View "Snaphost Scope" of last().
  • The view should include the columns "CID", "Checker", "File", and "Function" in order to properly record issues per pipeline run (otherwise just a count may be shown).
  • The View Filters should be configured for the issues which the pipeline commits. An example would be filtering on "Classification" of "Unclassified"|"Pending"|"Bug" or on "Status" of "New"|"Triaged"
  • The View Group By setting must be set to "None" as retrieving issues with a group by view is not supported.
• Note that this pipeline step differs greatly from the freestyle job post-build step in two major ways:
  1. The results are retrieved per project, not per stream.
     • In cases where multiple pipelines (or jobs) commit to multiple streams in the same project, different Views must be configured to filter by the proper stream.
  2. The filtering is configured entirely on Coverity Connect, not in Jenkins configuration
     • This allows for filtering on columns which were not offered in the post-build step as well as much more dynamic date filtering capabilities.

Example Script

• The following script uses a Coverity Static Analysis Tools installation named default, a configured "Username with Password" Credential with credentialId of jenkins-cov-user, and a configured Coverity Connect instance named cov-connect. On the Coverity Connect instance there is a project named my project(which contains a stream named 'my stream') and an "Issues: By Snapshot" view named my view.

node {
   stage('Preparation') {
      // checkout the source code
      git `<URL to Git Repository>`
   }
   stage('Run Coverity') {
      // use a variable for the shared intermediate directory
      iDir = 'cov-idir'
      
      withCoverityEnv('default') { 
        // run cov-build capture command
        sh "cov-build --dir ${iDir} <build-command>"
      
        // run cov-analyze command
        sh "cov-analyze --dir ${iDir}"

        // access Username with Password and set to COVERITY_PASSPHRASE and COV_USER environment variables
        withCredentials([usernamePassword(credentialsId: 'jenkins-cov-user', passwordVariable: 'COVERITY_PASSPHRASE', usernameVariable: 'COV_USER')]) {
          // run cov-commit-defects command
          sh "cov-commit-defects --dir ${iDir} --host <host> --port <port> --stream 'my stream'"
        }
      }
      
      // cleanup intermediate directory after commit was made (optional space saving step)
      dir("${iDir}") {
        deleteDir()
      }
   }
   stage('Coverity Results') {
      coverityResults connectInstance: 'cov-connect', connectView: 'my view', projectId: 'my project'
   }
}

• In the example the Coverity execution is kept in a single Run Coverity stage, in order to break out Coverity commands into separate stages a shared Intermediate Directory will be needed. It is recommended to use the External Workspace Manager plugin if this is necessary (the Intermediate Directory is usually to large for the stash/unstash steps).

Troubleshooting

When you encounter problems while using the plugin, please provide the following information:

• What you were doing when the problem occurred.
• The error message
• The Jenkins server log file (the location is dependent on the container you use)
• The content of ‘Manage Jenkins > System Information’ (Jenkins root/systemInfo)
• The configuration file for the job (Jenkins root/jobs/job name/config.xml)
• The global configuration file for Jenkins (Jenkins root/config.xml)
• In case of problems while saving the job configuration, a screenshot before submitting, and the browser you are using.

Known Issues

To enable the Jenkins Coverity plugin to operate with a Coverity Connect instance that is configured to use SSL, do the following:

1. Set the environmental variable CATALINA_OPTS to this value: " -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=$keystore -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit";
2. Make sure that the environmental variable $keystore points to the Java keystore used by Coverity Connect.
3. Restart the Tomcat server.

Compatibility with other Jenkins plugins

1. Flexible Publisher Plugin (Coverity Post-Build Actions fail to run)

Upgrade Notes

• When upgrading, make sure that all jobs using the Coverity plugin are finished and not running during upgrade. For best results, restart your Jenkins after upgrade.

Support

If you have any questions or issues with the Coverity plugin, contact coverity-support@synopsys.com

Changelog

Version 1.10.0 (September, 2017)

• Added support for Jenkins Pipeline by adding the pipeline steps coverityResults and withCoverityEnv. (BZ 97113)
• Coverity plugin supports the usage of Credentials Manager in the global configuration. (BZ 107429)
• Added Coverity Static Analysis Tools as a tool installation, configured through Global Tools Configurations in Jenkins 2 and newer (also improves pipeline support).
• Deprecating the existing Coverity tools location and the location node property, users should instead configure tools using the Global Tool Configuration. These fields will be removed in an upcoming release. (BZ 108096)
• Added feature to override the Coverity Connect username and password for a Job using a Credentials value. (BZ 92651)
• Added feature to override the Coverity Static Analysis Tools for a Job using a global tool installation. (BZ 107178)
• Deprecating the existing Coverity Connect Username and Password fields, users should instead configure a Username with Password Credential (through the Credentials Plugin) to provide Coverity Connect with authentication information. These fields will be removed in an upcoming release. (BZ 108097)
• The minimum supported version of Coverity Connect and Coverity Analysis tools is 8.0.0. (BZ 106531)
• Fixed an issue where a blank Node property for Coverity Static Analysis Location would fail builds with the error "[Node] Jenkins : Could not Find Coverity Analysis Home Directory.". (BZ 101161)
• Added SCM drop-down entries for Team Foundation Server 2015 & 2017, Plastic & Plastic (fully distributed). These SCMs are supported in newer Coverity tool version 2017.07 (with the exception of TFS 2015 which was supported in prior versions) (BZ 105111)
• The Coverity plugin provides UI validation for "Post cov-build command" and "Post cov-analyze command". Also, if commands for either is not supplied, the "Post cov-build" and "Post cov-analyze" steps will be skipped with warnings on the console output. (BZ 107703)
• The "Dataport" field in the global Coverity Connect configuration has been removed. (BZ 108016)
• Some of the "DataBoundConstructor" arguments are moved to "DataBoundSetter" to make the JOB DSL configuration easier with Coverity plugin. (BZ 106600, BZ 84075)

Version 1.9.2 (July 6, 2017)

• Added compatibility for 2017.07 Coverity Connect and Analysis tools. (Note: Older Coverity plugin versions will not work with the Coverity Connect 2017.07 and newer releases) (BZ 104760)
• Fixed an issue where special password characters caused an error establishing a connection with Coverity Connect. (BZ 104837)
• Fixed an issue where setting extra CA certificate was using the argument --cert, instead of --certs. (BZ 104659)
• Improved user permission checking which should reduce validation delays introduced in 1.9.1. (BZ 105657)

Version 1.9.1 (April 19, 2017)

• Fixed issue where defects were not shown on the chart when the the "Fail the build if matching defects are found" option checked. (BZ 102658)
• Resolved issue where check for "commitToStream" and "viewDefects" permissions fails if they are inherited from groups. (BZ102421)

Version 1.9.0 (March 17, 2017)

• Changed Required Core Jenkins version from 1.534 to 1.651.3. (BZ 101526)
• Fixed the error "command line parsing fails" when using the MSbuild, Gradle, or NAnt plugins to build with Coverity on Windows. (BZ 101359, 101799)
• The ability to filter on Checkers is deprecated, and this functionality will be removed in an upcoming release. (BZ 101225)
• Resolved an issue where links to view Coverity defects were broken if any of the instance, project, or streams names had spaces. Updated the graph key display name to "Coverity Defects (stream name)" and the defects page URL to "coverity_defects". (BZ 100794)
• The Coverity Jenkins plugin now provides a new "Invoke Coverity Capture Build" as part of build step for users to specify which build step they wish to capture build from. Other build steps will be performed normally without wrapping around with the Coverity cov-build. (BZ 52497, 88273, 93992, 98963, 100175, 100514)
• The Coverity plugin correctly sets up the intermediate directory when capturing builds of source files that only include scripting languages. (BZ 100126)
• The ability to specify multiple commit streams in a single Jenkins job was removed. Existing configurations with more than one commit stream will continue to use the first commit stream specified. Links to defects for additional streams on old build jobs will now only show the main stream defects. (BZ 99084)
• The custom intermediate directory (or default intermediate directory) is deleted whether the build was successful or a failure, unless the option to preserve the intermediate directory is checked. (BZ 99064)
• Removed support for v6 web services (Coverity Connect version 7.6.x and earlier) and older Coverity Analysis Tools (version 7.6.x and earlier). (BZ 98702)
• The Coverity Defects page displays CID/Checker/Function/File Location of defects. (BZ 97772)
• The Jenkins Coverity plugin does not work properly when it is configured inside the Flexible Publish plugin. This is not a supported way of using the Jenkins Coverity plugin. (BZ 97184)
• Resolved an issue with the Unstable status being incorrectly set. (BZ 82665, 88020, 92293, 96455)
• Resolved an issue with the Dismissed defects status being implicitly filtered (regardless of classification filters). (BZ 82665, 88020, 92293, 96455) Note: This may cause an increase in defects which were previously filtered automatically to be unfiltered (to match filtering de-select classifications "False Positive", "Intentional" "No Test Needed", "Tested Elsewhere"). (BZ 82665, 88020, 92293, 96455)
• Updated the default classification filters selected to match Coverity Connect Outstanding view filters. (BZ 82665, 88020, 92293, 96455)
• Removed "Microsoft Code Analysis results files" option (use "Search for Microsoft Code Analysis results" option instead). (BZ 94805)
• The Coverity plugin no longer provides a drop-down to select the "Language" in the configuration. (BZ 92811)
• Resolved an issue where Coverity publisher could not be configured by the Job DSL plugin. (BZ 91929)
• The configuration checking logic was improved. (BZ 84848)
• The "Check Configuration" button on the configuration page will validate the "Test Advisor" and "SCM" configurations as well as project and stream. (BZ 82064)
• Removed the 3000 defect limit when downloading defects from the Coverity Connect stream. (BZ 73634)
• Modified filtering to use built-in web service capabilities. This should reduce the total number of defects and amount of data retrieved from Coverity Connect. (BZ 73634)
• Updated the "Coverity Defects" page (BuildAction) so it includes all defect information. This will greatly improve the response time when viewing the Coverity Defects page. (BZ 73634)
• By clicking the "Check" button on the global configuration, the Coverity plugin will not only check the connection to the Coverity Connect instance, but will check the user's permission as well. The user is required to have "Commit to Stream", "Access web service", and "View Issues" in order to use the Coverity Jenkins plugin. (BZ 71109)
• The Coverity plugin will not fail the build when there is no snapshot in the stream, before running cov-manage-history and continuing its post-build actions. (BZ 67320)
• Users can now configure multiple strip paths for their Test Advisor configurations. (BZ 65793)
• Show a "loading projects" message when the Coverity Connect instance changes in the job configuration. (BZ 60138)
• The Coverity plugin will display the invalid project and error message to indicate that the select project cannot be found in Coverity Connect. (BZ 55377)
• Resolved a NullPointerException on the CoverityTempDir (idir) (BZ 101589)

Changelog for older versions

Version 1.8.1 (January 9, 2017)

• Support for Coverity Connect v6 web services is deprecated, and in a future release support for Coverity Analysis and Coverity Connect versions 7.6.x and earlier will be removed. (BZ 98801)
• Resolved an issue where the Coverity plugin could cause the build job results page to take a long time to load. (BZ 95459)
• Resolved an issue with environment variables that caused the plugin to fail on Windows (This issue was introduced in 1.8.0). (BZ 94839)

Version 1.8.0 (September 23, 2016)

• Added support for 'Additional SCM arguments' on Coverity version 7.0.x. (BZ 94678)
• Added new Coverity parser for interpreting environmental variables. (BZ 94604)
• Resolved issue with a master/slave setup, where the intermediate directory was preserved when it should have been deleted. (BZ 94550)
• Resolved an issue with a plugin crash occurring when setting 'cov-build blacklist' and 'display chart' to true. (BZ 94413)
• Added support for --filename-regex option in Coverity 7.0.x. (BZ 94036)
• Resolved an issue with parsing environmental variables by using the Coverity parser." (BZ 94034)
• Resolved an issue with incorrectly wrapping argument to --misra-config. (BZ 94031)
• Added messages for when attempting to build with an incorrect or partially configured Coverity Connect information. (BZ 93458)
• Resolved issues with environmental variables not being resolved correctly. (BZ 93390)
• Resolved issues with parsing environmental variables. (BZ 93380)
• Displays error message when stream or language settings are left blank. (BZ 93288)
• Fixed an issue with incorrect parsing of environment variable values containing spaces. (BZ 93136)
• Resolved an issue where the -ssl option was used with incompatible Coverity versions. (BZ 92290)
• If a change in source code doesn't result in a new build, cov-analyze fails. Workaround is to add a dummy file which always gets built. (BZ 89440)
• Resolved an issue so that an error message is displayed when Stream is left blank in configuration. (BZ 89238)
• Resolved an issue with running cov-commit-defects command with --on-new-cert trust set. (BZ 88959)
• Resolved an issue that caused builds to fail when a WAR file is specified. (BZ 88086)
• Resolved an issue where path names containing spaces were split. (BZ 87862)
• Provided support for using scripting languages only, compiled languages only, or both scripting and compiled language sources. (BZ 87531)
• Resolved an issue where arguments were not properly wrapped in quotes. (BZ 87051)
• Resolved an issue where defects were not fetched from Coverity Connect and displayed on a graph in Jenkins after upgrading the plugin. (BZ 86997)
• Resolved an issue with the --misra-config option. (BZ 86622)
• Resolved an issue that caused plugin to fail when stream name contains spaces. (BZ 85945)
• Resolved issue that prevented MISRA checkers being enabled. (BZ 85858)
• Added environmental variables to enable running cov-import with a script after cov-build and cov-analyze commands. (BZ 84077)
• Resolved an issue with using environmental variables in the intermediate directory setting. (BZ 82984)
• Resolved a problem to support having spaces in the Coverity Static Analysis Location. (BZ 81464)
• Resolved an issue with cov-analyze failing when the options list included two or more embedded spaces. (BZ 75510)
• Resolved issue with a null pointer exception occurring when clicking Defect Filters. (BZ 71782)
• Resolved an issue with null pointer exception when filtering by impact. (BZ 71499)
• Resolved an issue to warn the user of a delay when changing a project in Coverity Connect. (BZ 69229)
• Added a method to allow users to execute commands after cov-build and cov-analyze commands. (BZ 66147)
• Resolved an issue so that the job configuration page loads normally even if the Coverity Connect configuration is invalid. (BZ 59241)
• Resolved issue where removing a user's web access permission caused a crash. Now reports a message concerning insufficient user permissions. (BZ 46833)
• Resolves a problem by issuing an error message when a stream is deleted from a job configuration. (BZ 35447)

Version 1.7.3 (August 5, 2016)

• Resolved issue that prevented analysis of multiple .WAR files. (BZ 66004)

Version 1.7.2 (August 3, 2016)

• Skipped due to logistics issue.

Version 1.7.1 (February 8, 2016)

• Resolved issue that caused the plugin to fail to analyze after cov-build executes. This issue only occurred when using Coverity Analysis 8.0.0 (BZ 85629)

Version 1.7.0 (February 4, 2016)

• Resolved issue of defects not being counted when local was set to Japanese. (BZ 79147)
• The deprecated cov-analyze[-java] has changed to cov-analyze. (BZ 83277)
• The option --misra-only will not be used on Jasper and later releases. (BZ 83372)
• Resolved issue of chart not drawing job numbers correctly. Adding the "Display defects on chat option in order to address this issue. (BZ 85014)
• Resolved issue of finding analysis home directory on slave machines. (BZ 81254)

Version 1.6.0 (October 9, 2015)

• Resolved incompatibility between --misra-only and Test Advisor. (BZ 78807)
• Added the capability for adding many war files. (BZ 66004)
• Resolved issues when using an intermediate directory. (BZ 79060)
• Added a field for --filename-regex option. Also, added a field for additional commands for the scm option. (BZ 79395)
• Added a check button for the analysis installation directory. When the user clicks on it the plugin verifies that the given directory exists. In case the user doesn't verify this, additional checking mechanisms were added during the build to prevent misleading exception messages. (BZ 79525)

Version 1.5.2 (July 9, 2015)

• Added MISRA support. In order to perform analysis and commit when using MISRA, there is a new option for called "Use MISRA for analysis and commit" that once selected will display a text box where a configuration file should be specified.
• Fix issue with "--include-java"  option being added by default. 
• Fix error message when checking configurations.

Version 1.5.1 (June 23, 2015)

• Removed "Advanced Options" from the Configure System page.
• When using 7.7.0.
  • Drop-down menu for languages only allows “ALL”.
  • Under “Defect filters” for each job configuration, the “show checkers” option displays all checkers for the Coverity Connect instance associated with that job. 
• Added support for Coverity Web Services v9.

Version 1.5.0 (January 30, 2015)

• User input in configuration now resolves environment variables

• Added new checkers to the defect list for each language. List has been updated to all checkers present to 7.6.0 

• New C/C++ Checkers

  ASSIGN_NOT_RETURNING_STAR_THIS
  ATOMICITY
  BAD_EQ
  BAD_EQ_TYPES
  BAD_LOCK_OBJECT
  BAD_OVERRIDE
  BAD_SHIFT
  BUFFER_SIZE
  CALL_SUPER
  CHROOT
  COM.ADDROF_LEAK
  COM.BAD_FREE
  COM.BSTR.ALLOC
  COM.BSTR.BAD_COMPARE
  COM.BSTR.CONV
  COM.BSTR.NE_NON_BSTR
  CONFIG.STRUTS2_ENABLED_DEV_MODE
  COPY_PASTE_ERROR
  COPY_WITHOUT_ASSIGN
  CTOR_DTOR_LEAK
  DC.STREAM_BUFFER
  DC.STRING_BUFFER
  DC.WEAK_CRYPTO
  DELETE_ARRAY
  DELETE_VOID
  GUARDED_BY_VIOLATION
  HFA
  IDENTICAL_BRANCHES
  INTEGER_OVERFLOW
  INVALIDATE_ITERATOR
  LOCK
  LOCK_EVASION
  LOCK_INVERSION
  MISMATCHED_ITERATOR
  MISSING_ASSIGN
  MISSING_COMMA
  MISSING_COPY
  MISSING_COPY_OR_ASSIGN
  MISSING_LOCK
  MISSING_RESTORE
  MISSING_THROW
  NON_STATIC_GUARDING_STATIC
  OPEN_ARGS
  ORDER_REVERSAL
  OVERRUN_STATIC
  PARSE_ERROR
  PASS_BY_VALUE
  PW.INCLUDE_RECURSION
  READLINK
  RISKY_CRYPTO
  RW.ROUTINE_NOT_EMITTED
  SECURE_CODING
  SECURE_TEMP
  SELF_ASSIGN
  SLEEP
  SW.INCOMPLETE_TYPE_NOT_ALLOWED
  SWAPPED_ARGUMENTS
  SYMBIAN.CLEANUP_STACK
  SYMBIAN.NAMING
  UNCAUGHT_EXCEPT
  UNINIT
  UNINIT_CTOR
  UNINTENDED_INTEGER_DIVISION
  UNREACHABLE
  UNUSED_VALUE
  USELESS_CALL
  USE_AFTER_FREE
  VARARGS
  VIRTUAL_DTOR
  VOLATILE_ATOMICITY
  WRAPPER_ESCAPE
  

• New Java Checkers

  ATOMICITY
  BAD_CHECK_OF_WAIT_COND
  BAD_LOCK_OBJECT
  BAD_SHIFT
  CONFIG.DUPLICATE_SERVLET_DEFINITION
  CONFIG.DWR_DEBUG_MODE
  CONFIG.DYNAMIC_DATA_HTML_COMMENT
  CONFIG.HTTP_VERB_TAMPERING
  CONFIG.JAVAEE_MISSING_HTTPONLY
  CONFIG.MISSING_GLOBAL_EXCEPTION_HANDLER
  CONFIG.MISSING_JSF2_SECURITY_CONSTRAINT
  CONFIG.SPRING_SECURITY_DEBUG_MODE
  CONFIG.SPRING_SECURITY_DISABLE_AUTH_TAGS
  CONFIG.SPRING_SECURITY_HARDCODED_CREDENTIALS
  CONFIG.SPRING_SECURITY_REMEMBER_ME_HARDCODED_KEY
  CONFIG.SPRING_SECURITY_SESSION_FIXATION
  CONFIG.STRUTS2_CONFIG_BROWSER_PLUGIN
  CONFIG.STRUTS2_DYNAMIC_METHOD_INVOCATION
  CONFIG.STRUTS2_ENABLED_DEV_MODE
  CONSTANT_EXPRESSION_RESULT
  COPY_PASTE_ERROR
  CSRF
  DC.CODING_STYLE
  DC.DANGEROUS
  DC.DEADLOCK
  DC.EXPLICIT_DEPRECATION
  DC.GC
  DC.JRE14COMPATIBLE
  DC.JRE15COMPATIBLE
  DC.LOCALIZATION
  DC.PERFORMANCE
  DC.THREADING
  DEADCODE
  DIVIDE_BY_ZERO
  DOUBLE_CHECK_LOCK
  EL_INJECTION
  GUARDED_BY_VIOLATION
  HARDCODED_CREDENTIALS
  HEADER_INJECTION
  HIBERNATE_BAD_HASHCODE
  IDENTICAL_BRANCHES
  INDIRECT_GUARDED_BY_VIOLATION
  INFINITE_LOOP
  JAVA_CODE_INJECTION
  JCR_INJECTION
  JSP_DYNAMIC_INCLUDE
  JSP_SQL_INJECTION
  LDAP_INJECTION
  LOCK_EVASION
  LOCK_INVERSION
  LOCK_ORDERING
  MISSING_BREAK
  MISSING_RESTORE
  MISSING_THROW
  MIXED_ENUMS
  NESTING_INDENT_MISMATCH
  NON_STATIC_GUARDING_STATIC
  NOSQL_QUERY_INJECTION
  OGNL_INJECTION
  ORM_LOAD_NULL_CHECK
  ORM_LOST_UPDATE
  ORM_UNNECESSARY_GET
  OS_CMD_INJECTION
  OVERFLOW_BEFORE_WIDEN
  PATH_MANIPULATION
  REGEX_CONFUSION
  REGEX_INJECTION
  RISKY_CRYPTO
  SCRIPT_CODE_INJECTION
  SENSITIVE_DATA_LEAK
  SERVLET_ATOMICITY
  SESSION_FIXATION
  SINGLETON_RACE
  SQLI
  STRAY_SEMICOLON
  SWAPPED_ARGUMENTS
  TAINT_ASSERT
  UNEXPECTED_SYNC
  UNINTENDED_INTEGER_DIVISION
  UNKNOWN_LANGUAGE_INJECTION
  UNREACHABLE
  UNRESTRICTED_DISPATCH
  UNSAFE_DESERIALIZATION
  UNSAFE_JNI
  UNSAFE_LAZY_INIT
  UNSAFE_REFLECTION
  UNUSED_VALUE
  USELESS_CALL
  WEAK_PASSWORD_HASH
  WRONG_METHOD
  XPATH_INJECTION
  XSS
  

• New C# Checker

  ALLOC_FREE_MISMATCH
  ARRAY_VS_SINGLETON
  ASSERT_SIDE_EFFECT
  ASSIGN_NOT_RETURNING_STAR_THIS
  BAD_ALLOC_ARITHMETIC
  BAD_ALLOC_STRLEN
  BAD_COMPARE
  BAD_FREE
  BAD_LOCK_OBJECT
  BAD_OVERRIDE
  BAD_SHIFT
  BAD_SIZEOF
  BUFFER_SIZE
  CALL_SUPER
  CHAR_IO
  CHECKED_RETURN
  CHROOT
  COM.ADDROF_LEAK
  COM.BAD_FREE
  COM.BSTR.ALLOC
  COM.BSTR.BAD_COMPARE
  COM.BSTR.CONV
  COM.BSTR.NE_NON_BSTR
  CONSTANT_EXPRESSION_RESULT
  COPY_PASTE_ERROR
  COPY_WITHOUT_ASSIGN
  CTOR_DTOR_LEAK
  DC.STREAM_BUFFER
  DC.STRING_BUFFER
  DC.WEAK_CRYPTO
  DEADCODE
  DELETE_ARRAY
  DELETE_VOID
  DIVIDE_BY_ZERO
  ENUM_AS_BOOLEAN
  EVALUATION_ORDER
  FORWARD_CLASSCAST
  FORWARD_NULL
  IDENTICAL_BRANCHES
  INCOMPATIBLE_CAST
  INFINITE_LOOP
  INTEGER_OVERFLOW
  INVALIDATE_ITERATOR
  LOCK
  LOCK_EVASION
  MISMATCHED_ITERATOR
  MISRA_CAST
  MISSING_BREAK
  MISSING_COMMA
  MISSING_COPY_OR_ASSIGN
  MISSING_LOCK
  MISSING_RESTORE
  MISSING_RETURN
  MISSING_THROW
  MIXED_ENUMS
  NEGATIVE_RETURNS
  NESTING_INDENT_MISMATCH
  NO_EFFECT
  NULL_RETURNS
  OPEN_ARGS
  ORDER_REVERSAL
  OVERFLOW_BEFORE_WIDEN
  OVERRUN
  OVERRUN_DYNAMIC
  OVERRUN_STATIC
  PARSE_ERROR
  PASS_BY_VALUE
  READLINK
  RESOURCE_LEAK
  RETURN_LOCAL
  REVERSE_INULL
  REVERSE_NEGATIVE
  RISKY_CRYPTO
  SECURE_CODING
  SECURE_TEMP
  SELF_ASSIGN
  SIGN_EXTENSION
  SIZECHECK
  SIZEOF_MISMATCH
  SLEEP
  STACK_USE
  STRAY_SEMICOLON
  STREAM_FORMAT_STATE
  STRING_NULL
  STRING_OVERFLOW
  STRING_SIZE
  SWAPPED_ARGUMENTS
  SYMBIAN.CLEANUP_STACK
  SYMBIAN.NAMING
  TAINTED_SCALAR
  TAINTED_STRING
  TOCTOU
  UNCAUGHT_EXCEPT
  UNINIT
  UNINIT_CTOR
  UNINTENDED_INTEGER_DIVISION
  UNREACHABLE
  UNUSED_VALUE
  USELESS_CALL
  USER_POINTER
  USE_AFTER_FREE
  VARARGS
  VIRTUAL_DTOR
  VOLATILE_ATOMICITY
  WRAPPER_ESCAPE
  

• Fixed SSL issue with cov-manage-history  

• Fixed issue where cov-build was run when "Perform Coverity build, analysis and commit" was not selected

• Fixed graphs breaking when a build has more than one CIM instances.

• Added Impact into defect filters. Checkers can now be filtered by impact**

  (Note) After upgrade, the build configuration might need to be reconfigured so that impact filtering can be added. Initial build after upgrade might return zero defects.

• Builds can now be marked as 'Unstable' if defects are found

• Fixed issue where defect totals was being printed as total defects instead of matched defects

Version 1.4.1 (July 25, 2014)

• Fixed issues with receiving ERROR text within Defect Filters
• Fixed issue where checking configuration in Views gave back an ERROR text
• Commit to SSL now works properly 
• Plugin now connects correctly with Coverity Connect 6.5.0

Version 1.4.0 (June 30, 2014)

• Added Coverity Test Advisor tools to be ran during build
• Added cov-history command and source control functionality to Coverity Test Advisor tools. 

Version 1.3.1 (March 31, 2014)

• Changed method for determining Static Analysis version (BZ 61464)
• Allowed Coverity Plugin to accept similar version of Coverity Connect and Analysis , but different patches  (BZ 62013)
• Increased maximum number of defects shown in job page to 3000 (BZ 60322)
• Allowed older versions of Static Analysis work with new versions of Coverity Connect (BZ 62196)

Version 1.3.0 (December 19, 2013)

• Improve documentation
• Increase maximum number of defects shown in job page to 1000 (BZ 55368)
• Add support for 'Mixed Domain' (any language) streams (BZ 57461)
• Add support for Coverity Analysis 7.0.0 (BZ 55618)
• Don't fail the build if analysis and defect checking are both disabled (BZ 49096)

Version 1.2.7 (August 12, 2013)

• Improve compatibility with older versions of Connect/CIM. (BZ 54854)

Version 1.2.6 (July 24, 2013)

• Allow overrides for analysis/commit settings for an individual job (BZ 47499, BZ 45728)
• Add support for cov-emit-java --webapp-archive
• Add support for FxCop/MSVSCA results (BZ 50247)
• Add automatic searching for C# assemblies
• Fix a bug where builds would hang when JDKs were automatically installed (BZ 50669)
• Fix a bug that caused linux/solaris executables to called as if they were on windows (BZ 55117)
• Improve error message when a configured stream is absent in CIM/Connect (BZ 54068, BZ 51304)

Version 1.2.5 (June 28, 2013)

• Upgrade Coverity web services code to v5. (BZ 51322)

Version 1.2.4 (May 20, 2013)

• Redo the previous fix from 1.2.3, as it broke some workflows. (BZ 52107)

Version 1.2.3 (May 10, 2013)

• Fix a NullPointerException that occurred when the build/analyze/commit checkbox was unchecked. (BZ 52034)

Version 1.2.2 (April 29, 2013)

• Add an option for specifying the commit port of a CIM instance manually, as a workaround for an issue with committing defects. (BZ 51458)

Version 1.2.1 (April 29, 2013)

• Fix a NullPointerException during C# builds. (BZ 50321)

Version 1.2.0 (March 25, 2013)

• Allow configuration of multiple streams and languages for each job. The appropriate analysis and commit steps will be run for each. (BZ 47499)

Version 1.1.5 (February 4, 2013)

• Fix a bug where normally hidden streams would be available for selection in configuration (BZ 49226)
• Add a field for blacklisting executables from being wrapped by cov-build (BZ 38025, BZ 47534, BZ 48921, JIRA JENKINS-14834)
• Add an option to hide the defects chart (BZ 47524)
• Update checkers list to match 6.5.0 checker documentation (BZ 48917)

Version 1.1.4 (January 14, 2013)

• Add an option to not fetch defects after commit (BZ 47226)
• Allow static analysis binaries to be specified on a per-job basis (BZ 47224)