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Managing Technical Debt planning update – 2016Q3

July 6, 2016 Jul 6, 2016 07/6/16

Jean-Marc Prieur

[Nov 2016: Added a status Update with links on details for what was done]   Back in January, I shared with you our SonarQube integration Update and plans for the first half of 2016. I’ve just updated that blog post to ensure that all the links were added to the individual blog posts for the features we have delivered over these last 6...

The Maven build task now supports PMD analysis out of the box

June 15, 2016 Jun 15, 2016 06/15/16

Jean-Marc Prieur

Simple Java static analysis tools In addition to working on the SonarQube integration, we received feedback from some of you that you would like the Maven and Gradle tasks to perform static analysis using common Java tools such as PMD, CheckStyle, and FindBugs. These tools are also supported though SonarQube plug-ins, and most of their rules ...

The Gradle build task now supports SonarQube analysis

June 15, 2016 Jun 15, 2016 06/15/16

Jean-Marc Prieur

SonarQube analysis for Java In October, we updated the Maven task to support SonarQube analysis (See The Maven build task now simplifies SonarQube analysis). This time, we are pleased to announce an updated Gradle task which makes it easy for Java developers using Gradle to trigger a SonarQube analysis in Visual Studio Team Services. Using ...

SonarQube Code Analysis issues integration into Pull Requests

June 2, 2016 Jun 2, 2016 06/2/16

Bogdan Gavril

See also SonarQube documentation available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS Goal: Let developers fix issues early Team leads and managers spend time drilling into the SonarQube dashboard, setting up quality gates and monitoring technical debt. Have a look at the publicly available SonarQube dashboard for the Roslyn ...

SonarLint 2.2 for Visual Studio improves the connected mode

May 11, 2016 May 11, 2016 05/11/16

Jean-Marc Prieur

< p>In the continuation of SonarLint 2.1 for Visual Studio, last week, SonarSource and Microsoft released SonarLint 2.2, providing in-IDE analysis results consistent with analysis builds. Here is a description of the scenarios covered by these new improvements: Notifications when the quality of the solution is not consistent with the ...

SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v1.1 released: static analysis now executed during the build

April 20, 2016 Apr 20, 2016 04/20/16

Bogdan Gavril

SonarSource have officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.4 and version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. There have been no updates to the scanner documentation in this release, other that updating the version number to make it clear they relate to version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. As usual, we’ve fixed a few bugs...