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SonarQube in Action
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SonarQube in Action

by Patroklos Papapetrou, Ann Campbell
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
13h 56m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from SonarQube in Action

Chapter 1. An introduction to SonarQube

This chapter covers

  • Why SonarQube
  • Running your first analysis
  • The Seven Axes of Quality
  • Languages SonarQube covers
  • Interface conventions

For as long as software developers have been writing code, we’ve been asking ourselves and our teammates, “Did we do it right?” Until fairly recently, there weren’t a lot of good answers.

Unless you worked for NASA, the answer was “Well, it compiles.” Or, “Um, it seems to work.” And then there’s the perennial favorite: “The users aren’t complaining.”

Sometimes that was enough. Until the users did start complaining. Or until we had to add new features. Which is when we realized just how “not right” we had done it.

More recently, people have tried to answer these ...

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