SonarQube gives us a good and honest overview on the quality of our code. It’s most likely not as good as we hoped for and much work will be needed to get it to an acceptable level. But where do we start? And what can we do when we have many projects? This post is …
If you follow along with the last few posts on SonarQube, you will now have a working installation that continuously monitors the quality of your code. Today we link Visual Studio to SonarQube using SonarLint. This post is part of the SonarQube series. You can find the other parts here: Part 1: SonarQube: Installation Walkthrough …
Running SonarQube manually is a sure way to not running it at all. Sometimes you forget it, other times you know that it’s not going to give an “adequate” report and so you better wait a bit with the next run – the only problem is that this next run never happens. If you want …
Our first steps with SonarQube could be done without much thought on security, reliability and how we can protect it. If you want to use SonarQube beyond your pet projects, you should start making some changes to your installation. This post is part of the SonarQube series. You can find the other parts here: Part …
There are a few rules in SonarQube I find a bit special. I understand their reasoning but believe that the resulting errors aren’t correct or helpful. Should you reach the same conclusion you can follow along to create your own custom set of rules. This post is part of the SonarQube series. You can find …
Lines of Code (short LOC) are an often used metric to compare projects by their size. All you need to do is to count the lines of source code to figure out if project A is bigger than project B. However, that is only true when they use the same programming language. Only then can …
The SonarQube scanner is a simple way to start gathering data on your project. However, the scanner doesn’t know much about project structures and conventions for programming languages. Those things are all included in the build integration, which will be the topic of a later post. This post is part of the SonarQube series. You …
With SonarQube in place and the first project run through the scanner, we are now ready for the interesting part: Analysing our project. This post is part of the SonarQube series. You can find the other parts here: Part 1: SonarQube: Installation Walkthrough for Windows and SQL Server Express Part 2: Collecting Data on your …
As soon as your SonarQube installation is working, you are ready for the next step. To analyse code with SonarQube is simple, but again you need to know where you have to start. For this post we use the SonarQube scanner to analyse your project. You will need to start the scanner manually, but when …
The installation of SonarQube is well documented and easy to follow. However, SQL Server Express brings its own challenges. There are some configuration changes you must make or SonarQube will not work. This installation walkthrough will address those issues and help you to overcome them. This post is part of the SonarQube series. You can …