This article will guide you through how to run SPCAF from Command Line
Note: The use of SPCAF from command line requires a Build License.
All tools (code check, dependency analysis, metrics analysis, and inventory) can be executed separately on the command line. SPCAF comes with the following command line tools:
Command line tool | Description |
spcop.exe | Rule Check |
spmetrics.exe | Metrics Analysis |
spinventory.exe | Inventory Analysis |
spdepend.exe | Dependency Analysis |
spcaf.exe | All Analysis types |
Run analysis on command line
The command line tools can be found in the installation directory of SPCAF (typically 'C:\Program Files (x86)\SPCAF\'). Open the command prompt and switch to the SPCAF installation directory. Running one of the command line tools without arguments shows the following information:
NOTE: The SPCAF command line tools cannot be started from a DOS command path, e.g. 'C:\progra~2\SPCAF\spcaf.exe'. Always use the windows path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\SPCAF\spcaf.exe'.

Start one of the command line tools with the following arguments:
Argument | Name | Description |
-r | report |
Report generator that will be used to generate the output file. Visual Studio compatible console output will be generated regardless of this argument.
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-o | output |
Output file with processed data when a report generator is specified.
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-i | inputfiles |
Required. Location of files to be included in the analysis. Files can be separated by a semicolon(;). If the file path or name has spaces in you must place it in quotes ("").
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-f | filters |
List of regular expressions, separated by a semicolon which is applied as filters for the input files. Helpful if argument input files is a directory. Only the input files which match the filter are analyzed.
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-s | settings |
Name of SPCAF ruleset file. Possible ruleset files are stored in the installation folder of SPCAF, folder "Rulesets". For a custom settings file, the path to the settings could be provided. e.g. c:\settings_files\settings1.SPCAF.
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-t | tempdir |
Directory into which all temporary files are extract.
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-l | logfile | The path where the log file should be written to:
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-v | verbosity |
Specifies the amount of information to display in the output window:
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-c | recursive |
Set to true to scan the input folder recursively for analyzable files.
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-p | skipprojectcreation | Set to true to skip the creation of a .spcaf project file. |
-help | help | Displays the help screen. |
-a | about | Displays information about the software. |
Sample
The following command runs a code check for all WSP files in folder 'C:\wspfiles' and will create in directory 'C:\outputdir\' the 2 reports 'outputfilename.html' and 'outputfilename.xml'.
spcaf.exe -i "C:\wspfiles" -r "HTML;XML" -o "C:\outputdir\outputfilename.html"
Output Sample
