Sonar Integration with Maven

In my previous blog, we have already seen how to setup SonarQube server on Windows 10. We have also seen that how can we generate sonar report using sonar-scanner. In this blog, I’ll show you how to generate sonar report by configuring sonar dependency to maven project. 

Steps to setup sonar in Maven

• We have to configure pluginManagement and Profile for Sonar in pom.xml file
• Add below pluginManagement dependency to your pom.xml 

<pluginManagement>

<plugins>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>

<version>3.8.1</version>

</plugin>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.sonarsource.scanner.maven</groupId>

<artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>3.6.0.1398</version>

</plugin>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>

<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>0.8.4</version>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</pluginManagement>

• Add Profile to pom.xml file

<profiles>

<profile>

<id>coverage</id>

<activation>

<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>

</activation>

<build>

<plugins>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>

<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<executions>

<execution>

<id>prepare-agent</id>

<goals>

<goal>prepare-agent</goal>

</goals>

</execution>

<execution>

<id>report</id>

<goals>

<goal>report</goal>

</goals>

</execution>

</executions>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

</profile>

</profiles>

• Build the project, execute all the tests and analyze the project with SonarQube Scanner for Maven:

                 mvn clean verify sonar:sonar

• Once done, Check your SonarQube which will generate the code analysis report for your current project. My project name was api-gateway so it generated with the name api-gateway.