PVS-Studio manual
- Introduction
- Analyzing projects
- Continuous use of the analyzer in software development
- Integrating of PVS-Studio analysis results in code quality services
- Deploying the analyzer in cloud Continuous Integration services
- Managing analysis results
- Additional configuration and resolving issues
- Analyzer diagnostics
- Additional information
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Introduction
- How to enter the PVS-Studio license and what's the next move
- PVS-Studio's trial mode
- System requirements
- Technologies used in PVS-Studio
- Release history
- Release history for previous versions (before 7.00)
Analyzing projects
On Windows
- Getting acquainted with the PVS-Studio static code analyzer on Windows
- Build-system independent analysis (C and C++)
- Direct integration of the analyzer into build automation systems (C and C++)
On Linux and macOS
- PVS-Studio C# installation on Linux and macOS
- How to run PVS-Studio C# on Linux and macOS
- Installing and updating PVS-Studio C++ on Linux
- Installing and updating PVS-Studio C++ on macOS
- How to run PVS-Studio C++ on Linux and macOS
Cross-platform
- Direct use of Java analyzer from command line
- Cross-platform analysis of C and C++ projects in PVS-Studio
- PVS-Studio for embedded development
- Analysis of C and C++ projects based on JSON Compilation Database
IDE
- Get started with PVS-Studio in Visual Studio
- Using PVS-Studio with JetBrains Rider and CLion
- How to use the PVS-Studio extension for Qt Creator
- How to integrate PVS-Studio in Qt Creator without the PVS-Studio plugin
- Using the PVS-Studio extension for Visual Studio Code
- Using PVS-Studio with IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio
Build systems
- Analyzing Visual Studio / MSBuild / .NET projects from the command line using PVS-Studio
- Using PVS-Studio with the CMake module
- Integrating PVS-Studio Java into the Gradle build system
- Integrating PVS-Studio Java into the Maven build system
Game Engines
Continuous use of the analyzer in software development
- Running PVS-Studio in Docker
- Running PVS-Studio in Jenkins
- Running PVS-Studio in TeamCity
- How to upload analysis results to Jira
- PVS-Studio and continuous integration
- PVS-Studio's incremental analysis mode
- Analyzing commits and pull requests
- Unattended deployment of PVS-Studio
- Speeding up the analysis of C and C++ code through distributed build systems (Incredibuild)
Integrating of PVS-Studio analysis results in code quality services
- Integration of PVS-Studio analysis results into DefectDojo
- Integration of PVS-Studio analysis results into SonarQube
- Integration of PVS-Studio analysis results into CodeChecker
Deploying the analyzer in cloud Continuous Integration services
- Using with Travis CI
- Using with CircleCI
- Using with GitLab CI/CD
- Using with GitHub Actions
- Using with Azure DevOps
- Using with AppVeyor
- Using with Buddy
Managing analysis results
- How to display the analyzer's most interesting warnings
- How to use the OWASP diagnostic group in PVS-Studio
- Baselining analysis results (suppressing warnings for existing code)
- Handling the diagnostic messages list in Visual Studio
- Suppression of false-positive warnings
- How to view and convert analyzer's results
- Relative paths in PVS-Studio log files
- Viewing analysis results with C and C++ Compiler Monitoring UI
- Notifying the developer teams (blame-notifier utility)
- Filtering and handling the analyzer output through diagnostic configuration files (.pvsconfig)
- Excluding files and directories from analysis
Additional configuration and resolving issues
- Tips on speeding up PVS-Studio
- PVS-Studio: troubleshooting
- Additional diagnostics configuration
- User annotation mechanism in JSON format
- Predefined PVS_STUDIO macro
- Analysis configuration file (Settings.xml)
- PVS-Studio settings in Visual Studio / C and C++ compiler monitoring UI
Analyzer diagnostics
- PVS-Studio Messages
- General Analysis (C++)
- General Analysis (C#)
- General Analysis (Java)
- Micro-Optimizations (C++)
- Micro-Optimizations (C#)
- Diagnosis of 64-bit errors (Viva64, C++)
- Customer specific requests (C++)
- MISRA errors
- AUTOSAR errors
- OWASP errors (C++)
- OWASP errors (C#)
- OWASP errors (Java)
- Problems related to code analyzer