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| <h1>Reporting Bugs in FindBugs</h1> |
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| First of all, if you find a bug in FindBugs, and have the |
| skills to fix it, we encourage you to unleash the power of open source and |
| <a href="contributing.html">send us a patch</a>. We will gladly |
| credit you on our website and in the manual. |
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| Please report bugs using the |
| <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/findbugs/_list/tickets?source=navbar">Sourceforge |
| bugs tracker</a>. Note that you need to be logged in to sourceforge to |
| use the bug tracker. |
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| If you cannot use the Sourceforge tracker, you can try sending |
| email to the <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/mailman/listinfo/findbugs-discuss" |
| >findbugs-discuss mailing list</a>. You must be subscribed |
| to the list to post a message. |
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| Finally, as a last resort, you can email <a href="mailto:findbugs@cs.umd.edu">findbugs@cs.umd.edu</a>. |
| However, such emails are much less likely to be handled in a timely manner than |
| posts to the tracker or mailing list. |
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| <h2>False and Inaccurate Warnings</h2> |
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| Like most bug-detection tools based on static analysis, FindBugs |
| issues some warnings that do not correspond to real bugs. |
| While in general we would like to make the percentage of such warnings |
| small, we can never fully eliminate them. |
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| <h2>Information to include</h2> |
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| When reporting a bug, please include the following information: |
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| <li>Complete list of steps to reproduce the problem</li> |
| <li>If the error occurs during analysis, a jar file, class file, |
| or self-contained Java class that demonstrates the problem</li> |
| <li>FindBugs version</li> |
| <li>JDK/JRE version</li> |
| <li>Host operating system</li> |
| <li>Any exception traces, Eclipse error log entries, etc. that might |
| be relevant</li> |
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