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New and noteworthy

Quickstart Ruleset for Apex

PMD provides now a quickstart ruleset for Salesforce.com Apex, which you can use as a base ruleset to get your custom ruleset started. You can reference it with rulesets/apex/quickstart.xml. You are strongly encouraged to create your own ruleset though.

The quickstart ruleset has the intention, to be useful out-of-the-box for many projects. Therefore it references only rules, that are most likely to apply everywhere.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

New Rules

• The new Java rule {% rule "java/design/AvoidUncheckedExceptionsInSignatures" %} (java-design) finds methods or constructors that declare unchecked exceptions in their throws clause. This forces the caller to handle the exception, even though it is a runtime exception.

• The new Java rule {% rule "java/errorprone/DetachedTestCase" %} (java-errorprone) searches for public methods in test classes, which are not annotated with @Test. These methods might be test cases where the annotation has been forgotten. Because of that those test cases are never executed.

Fixed Issues

API Changes

Deprecated API

• {% jdoc core::renderers.CodeClimateRule %} is deprecated in 7.0.0 because it was unused for 2 years and created an unwanted dependency. Properties "cc_categories", "cc_remediation_points_multiplier", "cc_block_highlighting" will also be removed. See #1702 for more.

• The Apex ruleset rulesets/apex/ruleset.xml has been deprecated and will be removed in 7.0.0. Please use the new quickstart ruleset rulesets/apex/quickstart.xml instead.

External Contributions

• #1704: [java] Added AvoidUncheckedExceptionsInSignatures Rule - Bhanu Prakash Pamidi
• #1706: [java] Add DetachedTestCase rule - David Burström

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