How to exclude files and folders when using Fortify with MSBuild - fortify

Question

I "translate" my sources with msbuild using the following command:
sourceanalyzer -b sample -exclude "**/*.xml" "**/Test/**" msbuild sample.sln /maxcpucount:1
After this is done I analyze the source with:
sourceanalyzer -b sample -scan -f result.fpr
The sample.sln solution contains a lot of test projects too. Those projects produce a lot of findings I’m not interested in. How can I exclude those projects? They are all in "Test" sub folders. I’ve tried the –exclude switch with no luck. I guess it is ignored when building with msbuild.
The analyzer also produces findings for xml files which comes with 3rd party libraries. This is interesting but I do not want to have them in my report. The exclude does also not work here.

Answer 1

here is the official Fortify documentation (from version 17.10):
File specifiers are expressions that allow you to pass a long list of files to Fortify Static Code Analyzer using wild card characters. Fortify Static Code Analyzer recognizes two types of wild card characters: a single asterisk character () matches part of a file name, and double asterisk characters (**) recursively matches directories. You can specify one or more files, one or more file specifiers, or a combination of files and file specifiers.*
<files> | <file specifiers>
The following table describes the different file specifiers forms:
dirname : All files found in the named directory or any subdirectories.
dirname/**/Example.java: Any file named Example.java found in the named directory or any subdirectories.
dirname/*.java: Any file with the extension .java found in the named directory.
dirname/**/*.java: Any file with the extension .java found in the named directory or any subdirectories.
/**/*: All files found in the named directory or any subdirectories (same as ).
Note: Windows and many Unix shells automatically expand parameters that contain the asterisk character (), so you must enclose file-specifier expressions in quotes. Also, on Windows, you can use the backslash character () as the directory separator instead of the forward slash (/).*
File specifiers do not apply to C, C++, or Objective-C++ languages.
According to the above documentation, you would have to pass all "Test" subfolders paths:
-exclude path1/**/*|path2/**/*|etc..
but the last documentation line is saying that it will not be supported in C/C++/ObjectiveC++.