Sample Scripts for Polyspace Analysis with Jenkins

In a continuous integration process, developers submit code to a shared repository. An automated build system using a tool such as Jenkins builds and tests each submission at regular intervals or based on predefined triggers and integrates the code. You can run a Polyspace^® analysis as part of this process.

This topic provides sample Shell scripts that run a Polyspace analysis using Polyspace Bug Finder™ Server™ and upload the results for review in the Polyspace Access web interface. The script also sends e-mail notifications to potential reviewers. Notified reviewers can login to the Polyspace Access web interface (if they have a Polyspace Bug Finder Access™ license) and review the results.

Extending Sample Scripts to Your Development Process

The scripts are written for a specific development toolchain but can be easily extended to the processes used in your project, team or organization.

In particular, the scripts:

• Run on Linux^® only.

  The scripts use some Linux-specific commands such as export. However, these commands are not an integral part of the Polyspace workflow. If you write Windows^® scripts (.bat files), use the equivalent Windows commands instead.

• Work only with Jenkins after you install the Polyspace plugin.

  The scripts are designed for the Jenkins plugin in these two ways:

  • The scripts uses helper functions $ps_helper and $ps_helper_access for simpler scripting. The helper functions export Polyspace results for e-mail attachments and use command-line utilities to filter the results.

    These helper functions are available only with the Jenkins plugin. However, the underlying commands come with a Polyspace Bug Finder Server installation. On build automation tools other than Jenkins, you can create these helper functions using the polyspace-report-generator command or polyspace-access command (with the -export option). See Send Email Notifications with Polyspace Bug Finder Results.

  • The scripts create text files for e-mail attachments and mail subjects and bodies for personalized e-mails. If you install the Polyspace plugin in Jenkins, an extension of an e-mail plugin is available for use in your Jenkins projects. The e-mail plugin allows you to easily send the personalized e-mails with the previously created subjects, bodies and attachments. Without the Polyspace plugin, you have to find an alternative way to send the e-mails.

• Run a Bug Finder analysis.

  The scripts run Bug Finder on the demo example Bug_Finder_Example. If you install the product Polyspace Bug Finder Server, the folder containing the demo example is polyspaceserverroot/polyspace/examples/cxx/Bug_Finder_Example. Here, polyspaceserverroot is the installation folder for Polyspace Server products, for instance, /usr/local/Polyspace Server/R2019a/.

  You can easily adapt the script to run Code Prover. Replace polyspace-bug-finder-server with polyspace-code-prover-server. You can use the demo example Code_Prover_Example specifically meant for Code Prover.

Prerequisites

To run a Bug Finder analysis on a server and review the results in the Polyspace Access web interface, you must perform a one-time setup.

• To run the analysis, you must install one instance of the Polyspace Bug Finder Server product.

• To upload results, you must set up the components required to host the web interface of Polyspace Access.

• To view the uploaded results, you (and each developer reviewing the results) must have one Polyspace Bug Finder Access license.

See Install Polyspace Server and Access Products.

To install the Polyspace plugin, in the Jenkins interface, select Manage Jenkins on the left. Select Manage Plugin. Search for the Polyspace plugin and then download and install the plugin.

Set Up Polyspace Plugin in Jenkins

The following steps outline how to set up a Polyspace analysis in Jenkins after installing the Polyspace plugin. Note that the steps refer to Jenkins version 2.150.1. The steps in your Jenkins version and your Polyspace plugin installation might be slightly different.

If you use a different build automation tool, you can perform similar setup steps.

Specify Paths to Polyspace Commands and Server Details for Polyspace Access Web Interface

Specify the full paths of the folder containing the Polyspace commands and host name and port number of the server hosting the Polyspace Access web interface. After you specify the paths, in your scripts, you do not have to use the full paths to the commands or the server details for uploading results.

1. In the Jenkins interface, select Manage Jenkins on the left. Select Configure System.

2. In the Polyspace section, specify the following:

   • Paths to Polyspace commands.

     The path refers to polyspaceserverroot/polyspace/bin, where polyspaceserverroot is the installation folder for Polyspace Server products, for instance, /usr/local/Polyspace Server/R2019a/.

     

     

     

   • The host name, port number and protocol (http or https) used by the server hosting the Polyspace Access web interface.

     

     

     

   The Name field allows you to define a convenient shorthand that you use later in Jenkins projects.

3. In the E-mail Notification section, specify your company's SMTP server (and other details needed for sending e-mails).

   

   

   

Create Jenkins Project for Running Polyspace

When you create a Jenkins project (for instance, a Freestyle project), you can refer to the Polyspace paths by the global shorthands that you defined earlier.

To create a Jenkins project for running Polyspace:

1. In the Jenkins interface, select New Item on the left. Select Freestyle Project.

2. In the Build Environment section of the project, enter the two shorthand names you defined earlier:

   • The name for the path to the folder containing the Polyspace commands

   • The name for the details of the server hosting the Polyspace Access web interface.

   Also, enter a login and password that can be used to upload to the Polyspace Access web interface. The login and password must be associated with a Polyspace Bug Finder Access license.

   

   

   

3. In the Build section of the project, you can enter scripts that use the Polyspace commands and details of the server hosting the Polyspace Access web interface.

   

   

   

   The scripts run a Polyspace analysis and upload results to the Polyspace Access web interface.

4. In the Post-build Actions section of the project, configure e-mail addresses and attachments to be sent after the analysis.

   

   

   

Script to Run Bug Finder, Upload Results and Send Common Notification

This script runs a Bug Finder analysis, uploads the results and exports defects with high impact for a common notification email to all recipients.

The script assumes that the current folder contains a folder sources with .c files. Otherwise modify the line gcc -c sources/*.c with the full path to the sources.

set -e export RESULT=ResultBF export PROG=Bug_Finder_Example export PARENT_PROJECT=/public/BugFinderExample_PRS_01 # ================================================================ # Trace build command and create an options file build_cmd="gcc -c sources/*.c" polyspace-configure \ -allow-overwrite \ -allow-build-error \ -prog $PROG \ -author jenkins \ -output-options-file $PROG.psopts \ $build_cmd # ================================================================ # Run Bug Finder on the options file polyspace-bug-finder-server -options-file $PROG.psopts -results-dir $RESULT # ================================================================ # Upload results to Polyspace Access web interface $ps_helper_access -create-project $PARENT_PROJECT $ps_helper_access \ -upload $RESULT \ -parent-project $PARENT_PROJECT \ -project $PROG # ================================================================ # Export results filtered for defects with "High" impact $ps_helper_access \ -export $PARENT_PROJECT/$PROG \ -output Results_All.tsv \ -defects High # ================================================================ # Finalize Jenkins status exit 0

After the script is run, you can create a post-build action to send an e-mail to all recipients with the exported file Results_All.tsv.

In this script, $ps_helper_access is a shorthand for the polyspace-access command with the options specifying host name, port, login and encrypted password included. The other polyspace-access options are explicitly written in the script.

Script to Run Bug Finder, Upload Results and Send Personalized Notification

This script runs the previous Bug Finder analysis and uploads the results. However, the script differs from the previous script in these ways:

• The script uses a run_command function that prints a message when running a command. The function helps determine from the console output which part of the script is running.

• When exporting the results, the script creates a separate results file for different owners.

  • A master file Results_All.tsv contains all results. This file is sent in e-mail attachment to a manager. The manager email is configured in the post-build step.

    If the file contains more than 10 defects, the build status is considered as a failure. The script sends a status UNSTABLE in the e-mail notification.

  • The results file Results_Users_userA.tsv exported for userA contains defects from the group Programming and with impact High.

    This result file is sent in e-mail attachment to userA.

  • The results file Results_Users_userB.tsv exported for userB contains defects from the function bug_memstdlib().

    This result file is sent in e-mail attachment to userB.

• A separate mail subject is created for the manager in the file mailsubject_manager.txt and for users userA and userB in the files mailsubject_user_userA.txt and mailsubject_user_userB.txt respectively.

  A mail body is created for the email to the manager in the file mailbody_manager.txt.

The script:

• Assumes that the current folder contains a folder sources with .c files.

  Otherwise, modify the line gcc -c sources/*.c with the full path to the sources.

• Assumes users named userA and userB. In particular, the email addresses [e-mail] and [e-mail] (determined from the user name and SMTP server configured earlier) must be real e-mail addresses.

  Replace the names with real user names.

set -e export RESULT=ResultBF export PROG=Bug_Finder_Example export REPORT=Results_List.tsv # ================================================================ # Define function to print message while running command run_command() { # $1 is a message # $2 $3 ... is the command to dump and to run message=$1 shift cat >> mailbody_manager.txt << EOF $(date): $message EOF "$@" } # ================================================================ # Initialize mail body cat > mailbody_manager.txt << EOF Dear Manager(s) Here is the report of the Jenkins Job ${JOB_NAME} #${BUILD_NUMBER} It contains all Red Defect found in Bug Finder Example project EOF # ================================================================ # Trace build command and create options file build_cmd="gcc -c sources/*.c" run_command "Tracing build command", \ polyspace-configure \ -allow-overwrite \ -allow-build-error \ -prog $PROG \ -author jenkins \ -output-options-file $PROG.psopts \ $build_cmd # ================================================================ # Run Bug Finder on the options file run_command "Running Bug finder" \ polyspace-bug-finder-server -options-file $PROG.psopts -results-dir $RESULT # ================================================================ # Upload results to Polyspace Access web interface run_command "Creating Project $PARENT_PROJECT" \ $ps_helper_access -create-project $PARENT_PROJECT run_command "Uploading on $PARENT_PROJECT/$PROG" \ $ps_helper_access \ -upload $RESULT \ -parent-project $PARENT_PROJECT \ -project $PROG \ -output upload.output PROJECT_RUNID=$($ps_helper prs_print_runid upload.output) PROJECT_URL=$($ps_helper prs_print_projecturl upload.output $POLYSPACE_ACCESS_URL) # ================================================================ # Export report run_command "Exporting report from $PARENT_PROJECT/$PROG" \ $ps_helper_access \ -export $PROJECT_RUNID \ -output $REPORT \ -defects High # ================================================================ # Filter Reports run_command "Filtering reports for defects" \ $ps_helper report_filter \ $REPORT \ Results_All.tsv \ Family Defect \ # ================================================================ # Filter Reports for userA and userB run_command "Filtering Reports for userA: Group=='Programming' and Information=='Impact: High'" \ $ps_helper report_filter \ $REPORT \ Results_Users.tsv \ userA \ Group Programming \ Information "Impact: High" run_command "Filtering Reports for userB: Function=='bug_memstdlib()'" \ $ps_helper report_filter \ $REPORT \ Results_Users.tsv \ userB \ Function "bug_memstdlib()" # ================================================================ # Update Jenkins status # Jenkins build status is unstable when there are more than 10 Defects BUILD_STATUS=$($ps_helper report_status Results_All.tsv 10) # ================================================================ # Update mail body and mail subject NB_FINDINGS_ALL=$($ps_helper report_count_findings Results_All.tsv) NB_FINDINGS_USERA=$($ps_helper report_count_findings Results_Users_userA.tsv) NB_FINDINGS_USERB=$($ps_helper report_count_findings Results_Users_userB.tsv) cat >> mailbody_manager.txt << EOF Number of defects: $NB_FINDINGS_ALL Number of findings owned by userA: $NB_FINDINGS_USERA Number of findings owned by userB: $NB_FINDINGS_USERB All results are uploaded in: $PROJECT_URL Build Status: $BUILD_STATUS EOF cat >> mailsubject_manager.txt << EOF Jenkins for Manager - Polyspace run completed with status $BUILD_STATUS and $NB_FINDINGS_ALL findings EOF for user in userA userB do echo "Jenkins for $user - $($ps_helper report_count_findings Results_Users_$user.tsv)) findings" > mailsubject_user_$user.txt done # ================================================================ # Exit with correct build status [ "$BUILD_STATUS" != "SUCCESS" ] && exit 129 exit 0

After the script is run, you can create a post-build action to send an e-mail to a manager with the exported file Results_All.tsv. Specify the e-mail address in the Recipients field, the email subject in the Mail Subject field and the email body in the Mail Body field.

In addition, a separate e-mail is sent to userA and userB with the files Results_Users_userA.tsv and Results_Users_userB.tsv in attachment (and the content of mailsubject_user_userA.txt and mailsubject_user_userB.txt as mail subjects). The e-mail addresses are [e-mail] and [e-mail] (determined from the user name and SMTP server configured earlier).

The script uses the helper function $ps_helper to filter the results based on group, impact and function. The helper function uses command-line utilities to filter the master file for results and perform actions such as create a separate results file for each owner. The function takes these actions as arguments:

• report_filter: Filters results from exported text file based on contents of the text file.

  For instance:

  $ps_helper report_filter \
                  Results_List.tsv \
                  Results_Users.tsv \
                  userA \
                  Group Programming \
                  Information "Impact: High"

  reads the file Results_List.tsv and writes to the file Results_Users_userA.tsv. The text file Results_List.tsv contains columns for Group and Information. Only those rows where the Group column contains Programming and the Information column contains Impact: High are written to the file Results_Users_userA.tsv.

• report_status: Returns UNSTABLE or SUCCESS based on the number of results in a file.

  For instance:

  BUILD_STATUS=$($ps_helper report_status Results_All.tsv 10))

  returns UNSTABLE if the file Results_All.tsv contains more than 10 results (10 rows).

• report_count_findings: Reports number of results in a file.

  For instance:

  NB_FINDINGS_ALL=$($ps_helper report_count_findings Results_All.tsv)

  returns the number of results (rows) in the file Results_All.tsv.

• prs_print_projecturl: Uses the host name and port number to create the URL of the Polyspace Access web interface.

  For instance:

  PROJECT_URL=$($ps_helper prs_print_projecturl Results_All.tsv $POLYSPACE_ACCESS_URL)
  

  reads the file Results_All.tsv (exported by the polyspace-access command) and extracts the URL of the Polyspace Access web interface in $POLYSPACE_ACCESS_URL and the URL of the current project in $PROJECT_URL.