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Common reporting plugins - Maven Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Maven
Common reporting plugins
- [Instructor] Much like we did for the build plugins, I want to walk through some of the most common reports that you may want to consider when you are deciding how to build your site. So once again, we're going to go to the plugins page, and we're going to scroll down to the reporting plugins. Now, one of the first ones that I want to talk about is the changelog plugin. I find this really valuable in an enterprise setting, where people want to know what changes you have put into your code. You can tie them into SCM that looks at all of your git commits, for instance, and will generate, assuming you have good git commit messages, and actual changelog of your project. You also can look at dev activity and file activity. Most of those I don't mess with, but changelog has a lot of value, in my opinion, when you are looking at what has changed, especially when you're digging for what may have broken your code from another team's dependency. The next one I want to look at is the…