Software quality in Java all together

I have published a few posts on how to use the most popular Java frameworks to keep your project’s quality under control:

• PMD
• SpotBugs
• Checkstyle

Since all these frameworks support Maven plugins, I’d like to put them all together in a pom.xmlfile just to facilitate the configuration to anyone that might find it useful. If you want to download the files directly just click on this Gist.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.2</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
            <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
            <version>8.36</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <configuration>
        <!-- sun_checks.xml, google_checks.xml or any other-->
        <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
        <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
        <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
        <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>verify</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.13.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <!-- failOnViolation is actually true by default, but can be disabled -->
        <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
        <!-- printFailingErrors is pretty useful -->
        <printFailingErrors>true</printFailingErrors>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>verify</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
    <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.4</version>
    <dependencies>
        <!-- overwrite dependency if you want to specify the version of SpotBugs -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
            <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.4</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <configuration>
        <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
        <!-- Optional directory to put spotbugs xdoc xml report -->
        <xmlOutputDirectory>target/site</xmlOutputDirectory>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>default-report</id>
            <phase>verify</phase> <!-- this the default phase-->
            <goals>
                <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>