CodeChecker includes two user interfaces, which support different actions. This comparison summary is intended to overview which feature is available through which interface.

Table of Contents

• Analysis invocation
• Storage of reports to a server
• Report navigation and visualisation
  • Report management, triaging tools
  • Statistics, summary views
• Run management
• Server administration
  • Starting a server
  • Product management
  • Authentication and access control

Analysis invocation

• Analyzers can only be invoked through the command-line command, analyze.

• Analysis runs locally on the user's computer.

• Cross–Translation-Unit analysis supported if using a Clang version which supports it.

Storage of reports to a server

• Storage of reports can only be done through the command-line command, store.

Report navigation and visualisation

Feature name	Command-line	Web GUI
Listing basic (file, check message, ...) report summary	✓	✓
Listing advanced (detection status, review, ...) report summary	✗	✓
Basic (file path, check name, ...) filtering of reports	✓	✓
Advanced (detection status, detection date, ...) filtering	✗	✓
Printing bug path for report	Only for local output folder	✓
Visualisation of bug path in the code	Only through exporting to HTML	✓
Listing reports in the same file	Only through filters	✓
Listing all reports in a product	✗	✓

Report management, triaging tools

Feature name	Command-line	Web GUI
Showing comments for a particular report	✗	✓
Commenting on reports	✗	✓
Comment management (edit, delete)	✗	✓
Showing review status of a report	✗	✓
Changing review status of a report	✗	✓
(Legacy) Importing suppressions of < 6.0 CodeChecker	✓	✗
Difference of two runs	✓	✓
Difference of a stored run to a local output folder	✓	✗

Statistics, summary views

Feature name	Command-line	Web GUI
Run overview	Basic (only report count and timestamp)	✓
Breakdown of reports per run, per check	✓	✓
Exporting report breakdown to CSV	✓	✓

Run management

Feature name	Command-line	Web GUI
Listing runs in a product	✓	✓
Listing store actions to a run (history)	✗	✓
Deleting runs	✓	✓

Server administration

Starting a server

The command-line command CodeChecker server is used to start a CodeChecker server.

This command is also responsible for handling schema upgrades.

Product management

Feature name	Command-line	Web GUI
Listing products on a server	✓	✓
Addition, modification and removal of products	✓	✓

Authentication and access control

Feature name	Command-line	Web GUI
Configuration of authentication system	Through configuration file	✗
Managing permissions granted to users	✗	✓