[LOG4J2-2306] Investigate using Error Prone for Static Analysis

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Tests
• Assignee: Carter Kozak
• Reporter: Carter Kozak
• Created: 04/Apr/18 20:32
• Updated: 24/Dec/21 15:28
• Resolved: 05/Apr/18 02:22

Description

I'm curious if folks have experience using error prone.

http://errorprone.info/

I have applied the plugin locally and discovered a few minor issues (fixes incoming shortly) but I wanted to discuss possibly applying error prone to our standard suite of tests.

Issue Links

• relates to: LOG4J2-3283 Add error-prone to build
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #161