[THRIFT-3095] Enable CI Build for Coverity Scan integration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Build Process, Test Suite
• Labels: Coverity StaticCodeAnalysis

Environment

Travis CI and Coverity Scan

• Assignee: Roger Meier
• Reporter: James E. King III
• Created: 14/Apr/15 00:03
• Updated: 15/Dec/16 03:03

Description

Coverity offers a wonderful free static code analysis tool for C++, C# and Java open source projects. It is very easy to automate submissions to Coverity Scan for code analysis - I just spent about 15 minutes today (not including build time) setting up the GNU C Library (glibc) in Coverity Scan. We should create a CI job that submits results to Coverity Scan to improve the overall quality of the codebase. This is a low-effort, high-reward improvement.

If you want to see why this is so powerful please review the Coverity Scan project for the GNU C Library (glibc), something we all use every day:

https://scan.coverity.com/projects/4826?tab=overview