How to customize fortify visual studio plugin

Question

I am very new to HP Fortify SCA tool. I have Fortify plugin for Visual Studio 2010 installed. Now if I start analyzing the code, it includes all project in that solution. But I have lot of test projects which I want to exclude from analysis. If anyone has any idea how to customize the list of projects which need to be included for analysis.

Answer 1

You can exclude the projects from scanning by setting them not to build from the solution configuration.

For example, one way to accomplish this is:

1. Build -> clean solution
2. Highlight solution, right click and select Properties
3. Select configuration properties (ensure configuration is set to debug)
4. uncheck the build column of each project you do not wish to scan

Now when you scan in debug mode, you will not be translating/scanning the projects that are not set to build in that configuration.

Hope this helps.