In-Portal uses Phing build tool to assist developers in performing code-related analytics/fixing. The following tools are used:
- PHP Lint (lint)
- PHP Mess Detector (phpmd)
- PHP Code Sniffer (phpcs)
- PHP Code Sniffer Fixer (phpcbf)
- PHP Copy Paste Detector (phpcpd)
- PHP Documentor (phpdoc)
- PHPUnit (phpunit)
Historically the first three are most time consuming. For example on a large project:
- PHP Mess Detector could run 17 minutes;
- PHP Code Sniffer could run 7 minutes.
This ends up every build taking at least 24 minutes.
Solution
Use caching command-line options provided by the PHP_CodeSniffer (–cache) and PHP_MessDetector (–cache & --cache-file).