Minor Description
Linting [1] is a software engineering practice which make the code
more readable and maintainable by improving its consistency and
avoiding potential programming mistakes.
Gradle provides a core plugin for the ‘checkstyle’ tool [2][3] which
provides such facility. The lint actions are triggered when running
‘gradle check’.
There are a lot reported errors that will need to be fixed
incrementally in the future. We ensure that new errors will not be
introduced by defining a global threshold of “allowed” errors
corresponding to the sum of errors currently found in the framework
and in the official plugins.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software)
[2] https://checkstyle.org/
[3] https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/checkstyle_plugin.html