Analysis rules and rule categories

A rule is the smallest building block in a software analysis configuration. A rule category is a group of analysis rules that share a common purpose, such as security or performance.

On the Rules tab in the UI, use check boxes to select analysis types, rule categories, and rules. For example, open Java™ Code Review, select Security, and then select J2SE to display a list of security rules:

Always create final class extending java.security.Permission
Always declare clone () method as final
Always make reference to System resource transient

To create an analysis configuration, you select one or more rules for each analysis type. Selecting a small set of logically related rules has several benefits, see Strategies for creating analysis configurations.

You can run rules without modification or you can modify a rule to suit your purposes. For example, you can modify the severity level setting for a rule. If the rule author allows, you can edit rule parameter values or use the rule as a template for creating custom rules through the UI.

Through the analysis API, you can create rules from scratch and assign them to unique rule categories.

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