Generating findBugs report in Jenkins - jenkins

Question

I have to run the findBugs from Jenkins and generate the report to a specific file. I am looking for detailed steps to do this.
I have added the plugin in Jenkins and have the below in the pom.xml
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<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>findbug</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<effort>Max</effort>
<threshold>Low</threshold>
<findbugsXmlOutputDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/findbugs
</findbugsXmlOutputDirectory>
<failOnError>false</failOnError>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>transform</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<transformationSets>
<transformationSet>
<dir>${project.build.directory}/findbugs</dir>
<outputDir>${project.build.directory}/findbugs</outputDir>
<stylesheet>fancy-hist.xsl</stylesheet>
<fileMappers>
<fileMapper
implementation="org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.filemappers.FileExtensionMapper">
<targetExtension>.html</targetExtension>
</fileMapper>
</fileMappers>
</transformationSet>
</transformationSets>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>failing-on-high</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>findbugs</goal>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<effort>Max</effort>
<threshold>Low</threshold>
<failOnError>true</failOnError>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
How to run findBugs and generate report?

Answer 1

You need this in the findbugs-maven-plugin configuration section:
<findbugsXmlOutput>true</findbugsXmlOutput>
<findbugsXmlWithMessages>true</findbugsXmlWithMessages>
<xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
Also, you need to run the maven goal findbugs:findbugs. You can find details in the "How to Use" section of the plugin description page here: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/FindBugs+Plugin