In this short guide we will show you how to navigate the analysis results in Kiuwan Code Analysis.
Content:
Start a new analysis
You can analyze source code in two ways:
- With the Kiuwan Local Analyzer (which you download and install on your computer).
- Or with the Kiuwan Cloud Analyzer.
Open the analysis log
Log into kiuwan.com.
Select Code Analysis from the main menu.
Select Summary.
- Select on the left menu the correct application.
- Select from the drop-down menu which analysis you want to view.
- Select Log from the hamburger menu.
- In the new window, you can see in the Status field if the analysis was successful or not.
- If it failed, you will see an error code. Read more here at Analysis Error Code Reference.
View all analyses
- Select All from the hamburger menu
- In the new window, you can see the complete list of analyses that were run on the selected application.
- To select a different application, click on the arrow on the left.
By default, the list is sorted by date. To change the sort order, click a different column header. The list can be sorted by label, lines of code, risk index, quality indicator, or effort to target.
Click on a specific analysis to display the dashboard, which has useful data such as:
- The number of files in that application.
- The lines of code that application has.
- The values of the quality main indicators:
- Effort to target
- Quality indicator
- The position of that application in the ranking, depending on its quality value.
- The distance to the top, measured in quality.
- The date of the last analysis run.
- The quality model used in that last analysis.
- The value of the complexity by function.
- The number of defects found and the number of the ones muted, if any.
- The duplicated code ratio.
- The graphing of the quality main indicators mentioned above.
- The graphing of the distribution in languages of the lines of code.
Removing an analysis
To remove an analysis, select Remove from the hamburger menu.