Reproduction steps: 1. check out rev. 13120 and version 1.3.9 of findbugs 2. on each, perform: cd findbugsTestCases; ant

select output from 1.3.9: [findbugs] Warnings generated: 1977 [findbugs] Missing classes: 11 [findbugs] Calculating exit code... [findbugs] Setting 'missing class' flag (2) [findbugs] Setting 'bugs found' flag (1) [findbugs] Exit code set to: 3 [findbugs] Java Result: 3 [findbugs] Classes needed for analysis were missing [findbugs] Output saved to build/normal.xml select output from rev. 13120: [findbugs] Executing findbugs from ant task [findbugs] Running FindBugs... [findbugs] Calculating exit code... [findbugs] Exit code set to: 0 [findbugs] Output saved to build/normal.xml [findbugs] Executing findbugs from ant task [findbugs] Running FindBugs... [findbugs] Calculating exit code... [findbugs] Exit code set to: 0 [findbugs] Output saved to build/normal.html

I ran this w/ ant v. 1.8.1; java 1.6_22 on linux kernel version 2.6.36, 64bit userspace.

I encounter this non-reporting problem when using a rev. 13120 findbugs-ant.jar on my own projects. I expect that specifying "<findbugs ... reportLevel="low" ..." will cause findbugs to report all bugs found. Nonetheless, when TextUiCommandLine lns. 584-5 are executed, they set a rankThreshold and priorityThreshold that cause two of my test case bugs--ST_WRITE_TO_STATIC_FROM_INSTANCE_METHOD and URF_UNREAD_PUBLIC_OR_PROTECTED_FIELD--to fail the test at ln. 175 of AbstractBugReporter and thus they are not reported.

Further, I can see that only a small subset of available detectors are ever applied to my classes (the ones in detectorList, which is populated in ln. 1039 of FindBugs2). I expected that all detectors in edu.umd.cs.findbugs.detect would be applied if I didn't specify an inclusion or exclusion list. It looks like a lot more detectors (some 155) are added to a plugin's detectorFactoryList , but I'm not clear on the intended use of that list and the later-populated detectorList.

This issue should be closed given that sourceforge's bug tracker is the preferred system for this project. The duplicate bug report in sourceforge's tracker is numbered 3175875.