Excluding from coverage or duplication

Exclude specific files from your project's code coverage analysis or duplication checks.

You can exclude specific files from your project’s code coverage analysis or duplication check analysis (detection of identical lines of code).

As system administrator, you can perform this setting as the default setting for all projects. See Excluding from coverage or duplication.

Excluding specific files from the code coverage analysis

You can perform the setup in SonarQube UI (this requires that you have the project’s Administer permission) or on the CI/CD host. A parameter set on the CI/CD host has precedence over any UI setting of the same parameter.

In the UI

1. Retrieve the project. SeeRetrieving projects for more information.

2. Go to Administration > General Settings > Analysis scope.

3. In Code coverage > Coverage Exclusions, enter and save a path-matching pattern to define files to be excluded from the code coverage analysis.

On the CI/CD host

The table below lists the sonar properties you can use to exclude specific files from the code coverage analysis. For more information, see Analysis parameters.

Property key	Description
sonar.coverage.exclusions	Defines the source files to be excluded from the code coverage analysis. Possible values: comma-separated list of path-matching patterns. SeeDefining matching patterns.

Excluding specific files from the duplication check

You can perform the setup in SonarQube UI (this requires that you have the project’s Administer permission) or on the CI/CD host. A parameter set on the CI/CD host has precedence over any UI setting of the same parameter.

In the UI

1. Retrieve the project. SeeRetrieving projects for more information.

2. Go to Administration > General Settings > Analysis scope.

3. In Duplication > Duplication Exclusions, enter and save a path-matching pattern to define files to be excluded from the duplication check.

On the CI/CD host

The table below lists the sonar properties you can use to exclude specific files from the duplication check. For more information, see Analysis parameters.

Property key	Description
sonar.cpd.exclusions	Defines the source files to be excluded from the duplication check. Possible values: comma-separated list of path-matching patterns. See Defining matching patterns.

Related pages

• Excluding based on path-matching patterns

• Excluding based on file extension

• Applying advanced exclusions

• Other adjustments for analysis scope

• Setting initial scope

• Verifying analysis scope

• Adjusting the analysis scopeIntroduction