Using the Analysis Engine

iCR for Java supports the analysis of projects being managed by Cloud-Based services such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket as well as locally accessible projects. For the purposes of demonstrating the Analysis Engine and the Reviewer, we will use examples using the cloud-based repositories. The behavior when using locally accessible projects is nearly identical and should be easy to infer from the following descriptions.

The Analysis Engine works on your Java source code by focusing only on executable lines of code. It does process some of the comments but the Analysis Engine does not count blank lines or most comments in its OpenRefactory Bundled Lines of Code (OBLoC) count. You can use the cloc Linux command to get an estimate of how many executable lines of code are in your project.