Generates reports based on the SpotBugs Library.

Plugin coordinates:

• Group Id: com.github.spotbugs
  
• Artifact Id: spotbugs-maven-plugin
  

Goal Prefix: spotbugs

The spotbugs plugin has the following goals:

• help: Display help information on spotbugs-maven-plugin.
  
  
• spotbugs: Analyses target project by SpotBugs.
  
  
• check: Runs analysis like spotbugs goal, and make the build failed if it found any bugs.
  
  
• verify: Runs analysis like spotbugs goal, and make the build failed if it found any bugs.
  
  

The goal help gives general information about the spotbugs plugin and lists its goals.
The parameter detail gives detailed information about the parameters of the goals of the spotbugs plugin.
$ mvn com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin:4.7.3.0:help $ mvn com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin:4.7.3.0:help -Ddetail=true
You can also use the goal describe of the help plugin to get information about the spotbugs plugin and lists its goals:
$ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin:4.7.3.0" $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin:4.7.3.0" -Ddetail=true
The parameter goal gives information about a goal of the spotbugs plugin:
$ mvn com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin:4.7.3.0:help -Dgoal=spotbugs -Ddetail=true $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin:4.7.3.0" -Dgoal=spotbugs -Ddetail=true

Adjust your pom file with the following:
<plugins> <!-- maven-site-plugin --> </plugins> <reporting> <plugins> <!-- maven-project-info-reports-plugin --> <plugin> <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId> <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>4.7.3.0</version> </plugin> </plugins> </reporting>
To generate the bug analysis report:
$ mvn clean site
By default, the resulting bug report will be in "target/site/spotbugs.html" file.