Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

1. Go to the Build section and select Execute SonarQube Scanner:

2. You can provide the location of sonar-project.properties or provide details directly for static code analysis.

# Required metadata 
sonar.projectKey=SonarHTMLCSSJS 
sonar.projectName=Simple HTML CSS JS project analyzed with the SonarQube 
sonar.projectVersion=1.0 
# Comma-separated paths to directories with sources (required) 
sonar.sources=. 
# Encoding of the source files 
sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8 

3. sonar.sources is the main property for static code analysis. With this property, you inform SonarQube which directory needs to be analyzed:

4. Click on Save.
5. Go to Jenkins ...