SonarQube build breaker

Breaks the build if the SonarQube quality gate of the project is red.

See the blog post I wrote for more details.

Components

• Maven plugin - You can use this to run it in your Maven build.
• CLI - You can use this to run it in your CI pipeline as standalone application.
• Library - A library which provides the building blocks. You only need this if you want to develop your own build breaker.

Usage

Recommended usage in the GitLab pipeline

Put this line directly after the SonarQube analysis:

mvn --batch-mode --update-snapshots --non-recursive de.qaware.tools.sonarqube-build-breaker:sqbb-maven-plugin:sqbb -Dsqbb.sonarQubeUrl=$SONAR_URL -Dsqbb.sonarQubeToken=$SONAR_TOKEN -Dsqbb.branch=$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME

This line will automatically download the newest SonarQube build breaker and run it.

The build breaker needs two environment variables set:

• SONAR_TOKEN
• SONAR_URL

These can be configured in the CI/CD settings in the GitLab project configuration.

Branch analysis

SonarQube supports two modes of branch analysis:

Old versions of SonarQube supported appending the branch to the project key, e.g. if the project key is de.qaware.tools.sonarqube-build-breaker:sonarqube-build-breaker and you set -Dsonar.branch=master when running the analysis, the project for the branch is de.qaware.tools.sonarqube-build-breaker:sonarqube-build-breaker:master.

If you have such projects, this is how you would run the Maven plugin:

mvn --batch-mode --update-snapshots --non-recursive de.qaware.tools.sonarqube-build-breaker:sqbb-maven-plugin:sqbb -Dsqbb.sonarQubeUrl=$SONAR_URL -Dsqbb.sonarQubeToken=$SONAR_TOKEN -Dsqbb.branch=<branch> -Dsqbb.branchMode=projectKey

and the CLI:

java -jar cli.jar --branch=master --branch-mode=projectKey <your project key>

If you use newer versions of SonarQube, the -Dsonar.branch is deprecated and no longer works. You can either purchase a license if you want to support the SonarQube developers or you can install this plugin.

Then you can use the -Dsonar.branch.name property when running the SonarQube analysis.

If you have such projects, this is how you would run the Maven plugin:

mvn --batch-mode --update-snapshots --non-recursive de.qaware.tools.sonarqube-build-breaker:sqbb-maven-plugin:sqbb -Dsqbb.sonarQubeUrl=$SONAR_URL -Dsqbb.sonarQubeToken=$SONAR_TOKEN -Dsqbb.branch=<branch> -Dsqbb.branchMode=sonarQube

and the CLI:

java -jar cli.jar --branch=master --branch-mode=sonarQube <your project key>

Changelog

See this document.

License

Licensed under MIT, Copyright (c) 2019 - 2021 QAware GmbH

Contributors

See this page.

Maintainer

Moritz Kammerer (moritz.kammerer@qaware.de | @phxql)