Sonar Code Quality Testing Essentials

Managing rules

Click on Packt profile from the profile management screen to browse to the main configuration screen. Currently, the profile is empty, thus not containing any rules. The Coding Rules tab section features three list boxes from which you can filter rules by Analyzer Plugin, severity level, and whether the rule is activated or not.

• Plugin: Select one of the available Sonar analyzers
• Severity filter rules by severity level (Info, Minor, Major, Critical, Blocker)
• Select active, inactive, or all rules the current plugin analyzer supports
  

For now, select any rules of minor severity for the Checkstyle plugin and click on the Search button. Wait ...