Check the Quality of your Code Analysis

With large / complex code, it is possible that Visual Expert code analyzers raise warnings or errors. This may be due to a syntax error in your code, or a complex phrase that the code analyzer could not fully understand.

This article explains how to detect and address such issues for good, so that you code is 100% covered.

1. Display warnings ok

By default, warnings won’t show up, as they have little impact on your daily usage of Visual Expert. You can display them by clicking [Show Warnings] in the Section [Code Analysis] of the ribbon menu.

Once warnings are enabled, a new grid called "warnings and errors" appears in the "Code Analysis Progress Window". This window shows up when you launch manually a code analysis.

2. Check your code analysis

At anytime, you can check past code analyses, and see if they raised warnings. Click on [Manage Analysis] in the Section [Code Analysis] of the ribbon menu.

A window opens, showing all code analyses made for the current VE project.

For a given analysis, click on the "Info" button to see key events related to this Analysis.

From this window, you can:

• See if this code analysis raised warnings
• Get more info about a given warning.
• Export the warnings in an HTML page
• Send your log to the VE team for review

3. Review warnings and errors

When hovering a given warning, a tooltip appears to display more information about it (in this example, the warning is caused by a syntax error).

A click on [Export to HTML] will export all events and their details in an HTML page.

4. Send your log to the support team

If some warnings are not caused by syntax errors, or if you’re simply unsure about it, do not hesitate to send your log to the VE support team for review. They will come back to you about the cause(s) of the warning(s).

If warning(s) were raised because VE code parsers could not understand a certain complex phrase in your code, they will improve them to fully support your syntax, push these changes in the next VE build, and inform you when it is available.

To send your log to the Support team, click [Send log to Support]. Log in to your support account, or sign up for a free account.

Then, a page will show the details of your support ticket. By default, your log is attached to the ticket (see the checkbox “include an extended log”). If needed, you can add comments before posting your ticket.