Gradle Effective Implementations Guide - Second Edition

Using the JDepend plugin

To get quality metrics for our code base, we can use JDepend. JDepend traverses the generated class files in our project and generates design quality metrics. To use JDepend, we will simply have to apply the jdepend plugin in our project. This will add jdependMain and jdependTest tasks. For each extra source set in our project, a jdepend<SourceSet> task is added. These tasks are all dependency tasks of the check task.

We must configure a repository so that Gradle can fetch the JDepend dependencies. Gradle doesn't provide the JDepend libraries in the Gradle distribution. This means that we can easily use another version of JDepend, independent of the Gradle version that we are using. We see this behavior in the other code ...