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SQ analyzes the software projects with respect to five main quality characteristics and their corresponding flaws:
- reliability (bugs)
- security (vulnerabilities)
- security review (security hotspots)
- maintainability (technical debt and code smells)
- code coverage
- duplications
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The Overview screen lets one choose between the New Code tab and the Overall Code tab. Perhaps most importantly the Quality Gate Status (Passed or Failed) is being displayed in the top left corner. According to the official SQ documentation "a Quality Gate is a set of Boolean conditions based on measure thresholds against which projects are measured." Threshold examples are "No new blocker issues", "Code coverage on new code greater than 80%", ... Only if all conditions are met, the Quality Gate will be passed. Since the conditions can be freely adjusted, SQ allows to customize Quality Gates to developers' needs.
For each of these, SQ reports the number of flaws, a rating (from A to E, with A being the highest / "best" score) for this characteristic, and a link to a trend diagram. Each of the reported information can be clicked and directs the user to more detailed analysis and/or diagrams for this value. The definition of the ratings as provided by SQ is described in the Rating table below (as well as, in more detail, at the official SQ documentation).
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SQ reports separately the overall numbers and the values for new code (i.e., for the code developed since previous analysis in SQ). That helps in getting the general insight into the project status, and tracking the trends.
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