How to Use Yasca (A Quick Introduction)

I noticed a search engine referral that asked How to use Yasca. Maybe it seems obvious to me only because I've been using it for over a year, so here are a few examples of what you'll most likely want to do with it:

Scenario #1 Simple PHP Project

Suppose you have a PHP project with source code in c:\work\myproject\src\. You could run:

yasca c:\work\myproject\src

The output is placed in a folder called Yasca on your desktop.

Alternatively, since you know you dont have any Java, C, or C++ files there, you can exclude certain plugins that definitely wont find anything to scan. (This is optional; if you ignore this, execution time will just take a few seconds longer.)

yasca -px FindBugs,Antic,JLint,PMD c:\work\myproject\src

Scenario #2 Java Project, Output To Different Location

Suppose you have a Java project in c:\work\myproject, but you want the output from Yasca to go to a different location (z:\YascaOutput). You could run:

yasca -o z:\Yasca_Output c:\work\myproject