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Water Leak Changes the Game for Technical Debt Management
A few months ago, at the end of a customer presentation about “The Code Quality Paradigm Change”, I was approached by an attendee who said, “I have been following SonarQube & SonarSource for the last 4-5 years and I am wondering how I could have missed the stuff you just presented. Where do you publish this kind of information?”. I told him that it was all on our blog and wiki and that I would send him the links. Well...
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Unit Test Execution in SonarQube
Starting with Java Ecosystem version 2.2 (compatible with SonarQube version 4.2+), we no longer drive the execution of unit tests during Maven analysis. Dropping this feature seemed like such a natural step to us that we were a little surprised when people asked us why we'd taken it.
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Three options for pre-commit analysis
As a quality-first focus becomes increasingly important in modern software development, more and more developers are asking how to find new issues before they check their code in. For some of you, it's a point of pride. For others, it's a question of keeping management off your back, and for still others it's simply a matter of not embarrassing yourself publicly. Fortunately, the SonarQube developers (being developers themselves) understand the problem and have come up with three different ways of dealing with it: the Eclipse plugin, the IntelliJ plugin, and the Issues Report plugin.
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Already 158 Checkstyle and PMD rules deprecated by SonarQube Java rules
Already 158 Checkstyle and PMD rules deprecated by SonarQube Java rules
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Everything's a component
Something occurred to me recently that I wanted to share. Sometimes I'm late to the party, so this may have been obvious to you all along, but it didn't jump out at me at first, so I thought it might be worth talking about. It's the fact that the Views plugin turns a project into just another component.
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Differentials: Four ways to see what's changed
After a Sonar analysis, it's easy to see your project's current state - just browse to the project dashboard and it's laid out for you. Want details? Just start clicking. But it's not always enough to know where you are. Sometimes, you need to know where you are in comparison to where you've been.
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Customizing Sonar to Fit Your Needs
Sonar is a super-radiator for code quality and as such, you can expect it brings value to all stakeholders in a development group. To achieve this, Sonar must be able to show only relevant information in a certain context and shut off the noise to facilitate investigation and decision making. In this post, I will show how to customize Sonar to fit your needs by:
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Manage Duplicated Code with Sonar
If you use Sonar already, I am sure that you know already the worse of all 7 developer's deadly sins: And if you don't, I would assume you know about duplicated / cloned / similar code when you talk about quality of code and that you have heard of tools such PMD CPD or Simian. But why does copy paste matters from a code quality point of view? How can you benefit from Sonar to improve this? Let’s try to figure this out.
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Effective Code Review with Sonar
At SonarSource, we like eating our own dog food as much as possible. This is not always the case in software development, but in our case since we develop software for software companies, we can do it. We therefore have an instance of Sonar that analyses all our products daily.
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Running local analysis with Sonar Eclipse 2.0
Have you tried Sonar Eclipse? If you're a fan of Sonar and you monitor the quality of your code daily, you probably already have installed this set of plugins that brings the power of Sonar right into your IDE. As a developer, I personally find it really useful to fix the violations directly in the code editor - while you can not do much about it when you're browsing the web resource viewer of Sonar.
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SQALE, the ultimate Quality Model to assess Technical Debt
Six months ago, we would never have believed that one day we would be happy and excited to write about the implementation of a Quality Model in Sonar. Indeed the Quality Models that we knew at the time (most of them are based on ISO 9126 standard) are complex, expensive to implement, can be understood only by an elite of quality experts and are not fun at all.
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Detect Dead Code and Calls to Deprecated Methods with Sonar Squid
Up to version 2.1, Sonar was relying only on external coding rules engines such as Checkstyle, PMD and Findbugs to report violations on Java applications. But since version 2.1, Sonar also provides its own rules engine to work on Java dependencies. This rules engine is based on Squid and three rules are currently available :
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