PMD Release Notes

29-October-2022 - 6.51.0-SNAPSHOT

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.51.0-SNAPSHOT.

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

New Rules

• The new Apex rule ApexUnitTestClassShouldHaveRunAs ensures that unit tests use System.runAs() at least once. This makes the tests more robust, and independent from the user running it.

<rule ref="category/apex/bestpractices.xml/ApexUnitTestClassShouldHaveRunAs"/>

The rule is part of the quickstart.xml ruleset.

Fixed Issues

• apex
  • #4149: [apex] New rule: ApexUnitTestClassShouldHaveRunAs
• doc
  • #4144: [doc] Update docs to reflect supported languages
  • #4163: [doc] Broken links on page “Architecture Decisions”
• java-documentation
  • #4141: [java] UncommentedEmptyConstructor FP when constructor annotated with @Autowired
• java-performance
  • #1167: [java] AvoidArrayLoops false positive on double assignment
  • #2080: [java] StringToString rule false-positive with field access
  • #2692: [java] [doc] AvoidArrayLoops flags copy assignment in same array as sub-optimal
  • #3437: [java] StringToString doesn’t trigger on Bar.class.getSimpleName().toString()
  • #3681: [java] StringToString doesn’t trigger on string literals
  • #3847: [java] AvoidArrayLoops should consider final variables
  • #3977: [java] StringToString false-positive with local method name confusion
  • #4091: [java] AvoidArrayLoops false negative with do-while loops
  • #4148: [java] UseArrayListInsteadOfVector ignores Vector when other classes are imported

API Changes

External Contributions

• #4142: [java] fix #4141 Update UncommentedEmptyConstructor - ignore @Autowired annotations - Lynn (@LynnBroe)
• #4147: [java] Added support for Do-While for AvoidArrayLoops - Yasar Shaikh (@yasarshaikh)
• #4150: [apex] New rule ApexUnitTestClassShouldHaveRunAs #4149 - Thomas Prouvot (@tprouvot)