Managing your code issues

Overview and workflow

An issue is a problem in your code that prevents it from being Clean Code. Each Clean Code attribute is evaluated for a given language, based on a series of rules. When a coding rule is broken, an issue is raised. The issue affects one or more software qualities with a varying impact level (called severity) as inherited from the rule.

The following applies:

• A new issue is automatically assigned to the last committer on the issue line - the author -  if the author can be correlated to a SonarQube Cloud user. You can reassign the issue. 
• The issue context locates the issue in the code. The primary location is where the issue message is displayed. Secondary locations may be shown to help you understand the issue. Paths through the code (execution flows) are shown from the source to the destination (sink) when the issue originated upstream.
• An issue is assigned a status that changes during its life cycle. In particular:
  • You can change the status of an issue from Open to Accept to fix it later.
  • Set an issue to False positive if you think the analysis is mistaken.

• You can tag and comment on issues.
• If you are a member of an organization that is part of an Enterprise you can view a list of issues from across all your projects at the organization level. See the Retrieving issues page for more information.

Permissions

Retrieving and managing issues is based on the permissions assigned to your profile on the project level. 

• You can view issues on all public projects.
• On private projects, you need at least Browse permission to view issues, change an assignee, comment on issues, apply bulk changes, and change tags.
• In addition to the Browse permission, the Administer Issues permission enables you to change an issue's status.

See the Retrieving issues page for more information about how to retrieve, view, and filter issues.

To learn more about how to set project permissions, see the Setting project permissions and visibility page.

Related pages

• Issue management solution overview
  This page explains: how SonarQube Cloud identifies, assigns, and synchronizes issues; the issue lifecycle.
• Retrieving issues
  This page explains how to retrieve and filter issues.
• Reviewing issues
  This page explains how to view and understand your issues in the SonarQube Cloud UI.
• Editing issues
  This page explains how to accept, mark as False positive, reopen, assign, tag, or comment on an issue.
• Fixing issues
  This page explains how to get suggested fixes for your issues.
• Subscribing to email notifications
  This page explains how to configure your account to receive email notifications for issue-related events.