Task: View The Results Of An Analysis

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Once you have carried out a CodeSonar analysis, you can view the results on an Analysis page in the CodeSonar Web GUI.

In most cases, the most interesting information on this page will be the list of warnings issued by the analysis. However, the page includes other useful information, including:

the user and machine that ran the analysis,
the time the analysis started, and the time it finished (or, if it has not yet finished, its current status),
a list of files analyzed, and a list of the procedures encountered,
links to logs related to the analysis.

What do you want to do?

latest analysis	View the results of the most recent analysis for a project.
older analysis	View the results of an older analysis of a project.

latest analysis

View the results of the most recent analysis for a project.

older analysis

View the results of an older analysis of a project.

In both of these cases, the analysis results will be displayed on an Analysis page.

In most cases the most recent analysis is the most important, since it reflects the current state of the software project most accurately.

With default hub analysis settings, the most recent analysis for every project is available from the CodeSonar home page. If the hub settings have been changed, you will need to perform one additional navigation step. Both cases are covered below.

Method: View the most recent analysis of a project

If the CodeSonar Web GUI is not already open, open it now.

If you have just opened the GUI, the home page will already be displayed. Otherwise, click the CodeSonar logo in the GUI page header to navigate to the home page.

Find the project name in the table that is displayed on the home page.

screenshot: home page with selected project marked

Click on the project name.

The Analysis page for the most recent analysis of the project will open, unless the hub has been configured to navigate to the Project page instead.

If the Project page opened instead of an Analysis page, navigate to the most recent analysis from there:

Click the Started column header, then select Sort Descending from the menu that opens.

screenshot fragment: using table menu to sort Started column in descending order
The table rows will be sorted in descending order by the timestamp at which the analysis started, and a icon will be shown next to the Started column header to indicate the current table sort order.

Click the first row in the table: you have sorted the table in descending order by start timestamp, so the first row represents the most recent analysis in the table.
The Analysis page for that analysis will open.

While the most recent analysis is usually the most interesting, there are some cases in which the results of older analyses are also useful. For example, you might want to review the effects of a series of modifications to the software project.

The Project page lists all analyses that have ever been carried out on the project.

Method: View an older analysis of a project

If the CodeSonar Web GUI is not already open, open it now.

If you have just opened the GUI, the home page will already be displayed. Otherwise, click the CodeSonar logo in the GUI page header to navigate to the home page.

Locate the project name in the table displayed on the home page.

screenshot: home page with selected project marked

Click on the line containing the project name.

With default hub analysis settings, the Analysis page for the most recent analysis of the project will open.
1. Click the project name in the Analysis page breadcrumbs to navigate to the Project page.
Otherwise, the Project page will open directly.

Click on the line in the Analyses table corresponding to the analysis you wish to view.

screenshot: project page with analysis marked in table

The Analysis page for the selected analysis will open.