About quality standards

A short description of the quality standards that contribute to improving code quality in SonarQube 10.7.

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In the Sonar solution, each of your projects has a set quality standard, made up of a quality profile and a quality gate:

• A quality profile determines the set of Overview that apply during analysis.

• A quality gate consists of a set of conditions against which the code is measured during analysis. Depending on the result, the code will pass or fail the quality gate, giving developers indications on whether to fix issues or merge the code.

Quality profile

We recommend using the built-in quality profile, called Sonar way. For details, see the Quality profiles page.

Quality gate

By default, SonarQube and SonarCloud implement a recommended quality gate called the Sonar way. For details, see the Quality gates page.