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stephanos
stephanos

Reputation: 3339

FindBugs: Unit test package dependency rules?

I want to enforce certain dependency rules in our code base: e.g. package A should not depend on package B, no circular dependencies etc. And I think the only way that is able to enforce them are (failing) tests, not reports.

So I looked around and found JDepend, Classycle and JBoss TattleTale - all appear to be discontinued and lacking Java 8 support. That's when I discovered FindBugs.

So I want to use FindBugs to analyze our package structure and use JUnit to validate certain rules about their relations. But since the FindBugs source code is huge, I'm wondering: How do I achieve this?

Regards, Stephan

Upvotes: 1

Views: 331

Answers (2)

Wojciech Gdela
Wojciech Gdela

Reputation: 359

Nowadays you can use ArchUnit to declare allowed/disallowed dependencies between packages in a form of unit test (JUnit or other test framework), there are some examples in their user guide, a sample looks like this:

noClasses().that().resideInAPackage("..utils..")
    .should().dependOnClassesThat().resideInAPackage("..domain..")

Upvotes: 0

Stefan Birkner
Stefan Birkner

Reputation: 24510

You can use Degraph for this task: http://blog.schauderhaft.de/2014/07/27/test-your-dependencies-with-degraph/

Upvotes: 2

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