Release notes for Argus Codewatch Eclipse Plug-in

Upcoming release version 0.8.3

Quick fixes:

• Change identifier to follow Java Code Convention

Features:

• Support for incremental building

Other changes:

• Unit tests

And hopefully:

• a lot of new code checks and quick fixes
• Argus added to the Clean Up wizard
• much less TODO items in the Tasks view
• actions added to the cheat sheets

Version 0.8.2 - August 31, 2006

Code checks:

• Enhanced assignment in expression check with allowing assignments in updaters section of the for statement
• Enhanced .equals() comparison check with allowing enumerations, static final fields and type literals (.class)

Quick fixes:

• Replace assignment by extracting the assignment

Bug fixes:

• Could not add multiple SuppressWarning tokens
• Missing brace quick fix did not show up

Features:

• Cheats sheets for quickly creating a code check or a quick fix
• Higher priority for often applied quick fixes
• Real-time code checking
• Categorized quick fixes with different icon for each category and vendor

Other changes:

• Added documentation about Source -> "Clean Up..." for future developers
• Updated help files, including information about the internals of Argus Codewatch
• Changed description of SuppressWarning quick fix to include name of token
• Changed builder of preference page to use a standard progress monitor running in background

Version 0.8.1 - August 8, 2006

Bug fixes:

• Non final methods check now categorized under W.I.P. and default severity set to ignore
• Typing errors in documention in plugin.xml

Version 0.8.0 - August 8, 2006

Code checks:

• Assignment in expression check
• equals() comparison check

Quick fixes:

• Replace == or != operator with equals()

Bug fixes:

• build.xml failed
• Preference page showed error due to missing icons

Features:

• Categorized problems

Other changes:

• Documentation in plugin.xml

Version 0.7.0 - Unknown

Code checks:

• Visible array field check
• Check finalize() occurrences are shielded
• Check for lowercase L in Long-literal

Quick fixes:

• Replace finalizer() method with a finalizer guardian
• Replace lowercase L with a capital L

Version 0.6.0 - September 28, 2005

Code checks:

• Missing braces check
• Check for using .valueOf() for built-in types
• Input of equals() is an object
• Java naming code convention check
• Override hashcode() if equals() is overridden
• Unconditional loop check

Quick fixes:

• Add missing braces
• Change the constructor call to a static factory method
• Add a hashCode() method

Other changes:

• @SuppressWarnings("all") and @SuppressWarnings("naming-convention") are implemented.