hey folks, I'm using the autonomousapps dependency analysis plugin to clean up our dependencies and am looking into ways to automate the buildHealth task into part of our build workflow. Is there a convention of where/when to run this task to prevent regressions of our dependencies without being too much of a hindrance on active development? I haven't found too much documentation about using the plugin in this regard. Thanks in advance 🙂

I simply have it run in ci. I also have a separate build that only runs on PRs

I usually add a task called

qualityCheck

. This then runs in the first stage of PR builds and can also be run locally by developer before pushing. For the dependency analysis plugin I typically wire these to

projectHealth

to have each project checked individually. And you then set that task to fail.

// in root -> make analysis plugin lead to failure
dependencyAnalysis { issues { all { onAny { severity("fail") } } } }

And the

check

task something like this:

// each project has a 'qualityCheck'
tasks.register("qualityCheck") {
    group = "build"
    description = "Runs all checks (without executing tests)"
    dependsOn(tasks.withType<ProjectHealthTask>())
    // Other checks like spotless or checkstyle etc.
}

First stage of CI:

./gradlew qualityCheck --continue

thanks guys!