Kiuwan for Developers (K4d) is a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE that facilitates and automates compliance with quality standards and best practices for several languages. It provides the following benefits:
Kiuwan for Developers monitors and reports on the quality and efficiency of your code at the point that it is written. This immediate feedback provides you with the opportunity to improve your code before it is delivered.
Kiuwan for Developers (K4D) requires Java 8 or above —either JDK or JRE— is required. You may download it from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. Please visit Java 8 and JAVA_HOME for further info |
If your are running Eclipse under Linux/Unix you can experience problems after install K4D. That's due to some well-known problems with GTK3 use by Eclipse distributions. Please visit next links for furhter info.
To solve this issue, please modifiy eclipse.ini : Add to your eclipse.ini: --launcher.GTK_version before the line: --launcher.appendVmargs |
To install Kiuwan for Developers just follow the steps below:
If installation successfully completes, Kiuwan for Developers will be up and running upon restart!
The Welcome view will be shown with a new addition on top, Kiuwan for developers, which links with the Quick Start Guide integrated in the IDE. If you closed this view accidentally, you might open it again through Help >> Welcome.
The Quick Start Guide will help you:
K4D can be configure to run in different execution modes. By configuring K4D, you can decide when Kiuwan will be executed and what files will be analyzed. Configurations options are available under Window -> Preferences -> Kiuwan - Analysis Options |
If your Eclipse project is not configured to "Build Automatically", Kiuwan will only run on-demand. |
That is, left-click on the selected item (file, folder, project) and select "Run Kiuwan Analysis".
Kiuwan will then execute the analysis on the selected item(s).
If your Eclipse project is configured to "Build Automatically", next options will apply |
If your Eclipse project is configured to "Build Automatically and "Automatic quality analysis" is checked, Kiuwan will analyze a file after you save the file. Only the selected file will be analyzed.
If your Eclipse project is configured to "Build Automatically and "Do full builds" is checked, Kiuwan will analyze the complete project when you Clean the project.
Please note that this option is only availble if "Automatic quality analysis" is checked.
Kiuwan for Developers checks automatically for updates on Eclipse startup and on a daily basis after that. If you need to check it manually, you can do so through the standard Eclipse mechanisms, or by simply going to Window >> Preferences >> Kiuwan and pressing the Check for updates button.
If you experience problems with the Kiuwan plugin for Eclipse, you can read our documentation to try to fix it yourself, or if you prefer you can collect troubleshooting information and send it to us.
A focused set of help topics that is related to the current context can be shown to users on demand using context-sensitive help. This form of user assistance is delivered to users when a platform-specific trigger is activated (e.g. F1 key on Windows, Ctrl+F1 on GTK, Help key on Carbon). Some contexts where help is available are preferences dialogs, project properties dialogs or views.
Important information for troubleshooting is scatered across several log and configuration files. To make this process easier to you, just go to Window >> Preferences >> Kiuwan >> Support and press the Extract support data button. Choose the folder where you want to save this information, and submit to our technical support team the compressed file generated there.
See Troubleshooting#ContactKiuwanTechnicalSupport on how to contact us. We will address your problem as soon as possible.