how to fail a scan in sonarqube when the coverage % goes down from previous scan

[ramdas.x.sivar...@nielsen.com]

Hello,

I am wondering if there any way to fail a scan in sonarqube when the coverage % goes down from the previous scan.  

Ex: Coverage 

Yesterday - 40% 

Today - 30%

In some case, developers comment out the unit tests in case of failure to stop the build from failing.

Thanks in advance.

[G. Ann Campbell]

Hi,

Sorry, there's no good way to do this. Instead, I'd make sure Coverage on New Code was included in the Quality Gate, and look at test-related rules such as S1607 (Tests should not be ignored). Of course, that doesn't help if they comment-out the test rather than marking it ignored. For that, I hope that S125 (Sections of code should not be commented out) will soon apply to tests.

Ann