fta report webui

[1000i100]

here is an exemple for javascript with es6 plato :
https://g1.frama.io/g1lib.js/maintainability/ (from this project https://framagit.org/g1/g1lib.js )

My goal :
now, fta give a score and fail thresold but if i have a bad score i have no easy clues to improve it.
perhapse a good linter can do the job, but plato report look perfect (but not for typescript and not fast)

[sgb-io]

Hi @1000i100 I think what you are describing is outside the scope of FTA currently. But it's an interesting topic.

Quote from the website:

For the vast majority of projects, it is very likely that FTA will tell you that you have at least some files that Could be better or Needs improvement. The bar for achieving OK is fairly high (max FTA score of 50, see above), meaning you can only store a limited amount of operators, operands and logical paths within a single file before FTA will start telling you that improvement is needed.

FTA encourages breaking down large, complex files into smaller, more maintainable parts. Simplifying and breaking apart code is the only effective way to improve FTA scores.

It's entirely reasonable that you might consider something maintainable that has a high FTA score. FTA aims to provide guidance, but not dictate what is OK and what is not. In reality, there are many other factors you should take into account when evaluating the maintainability of code. FTA simply provides you with some baseline information to work with, particularly for files that have very high FTA scores - that usually indicates a smell.

All that said, I think providing dataviz for the fta output could be interesting to look at.

Related; I generally find that the top 5-10 files with the highest scores is what need improving / breaking down. Once every file is below ~70-80 in score, it becomes very subjective.

I would also add that these days, it's probably where an LLM comes into it, in terms of solving "how do I improve this file" and I think that is compatible with fta's current scope.