From fd141917c778a960cd59155c8e23a04f09ae63bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anders Schack-Mulligen Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:08:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Java: Add change note. --- change-notes/1.24/analysis-java.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/change-notes/1.24/analysis-java.md b/change-notes/1.24/analysis-java.md index af7f09bc610..3e6bfa87a07 100644 --- a/change-notes/1.24/analysis-java.md +++ b/change-notes/1.24/analysis-java.md @@ -15,3 +15,11 @@ The following changes in version 1.24 affect Java analysis in all applications. ## Changes to libraries +* Identification of test classes have been improved. Previously, one of the + match conditions would classify any class with a name containing the string + "Test" as a test class, but now this matching has been replaced with one that + looks for the occurrence of actual unit-test annotations. This affects the + general file classification mechanism and thus suppression of alerts, and + also any security queries using taint tracking, as test classes act as + default barriers stopping taint flow. +