Automatic Analysis is not scanning the entire code?

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Hi There,

We signed up for Sonarcloud a few weeks ago.

  • ALM used GitHub
  • CI system used GCP Cloud Build
  • Scanner command used when applicable (private details masked)
  • Languages of the repository: JS

We turned on automatic analysis, and we saw that Sonarcloud was scanning about 40 K lines of code. While we liked the Sonar check and PR decoration features with the automatic analysis, we were a bit disappointed to learn that code coverage is not available with automatic analysis.

We then switched to sonar-scanner inside our pipeline on GCP Cloud Build. With our current approach, we noticed that Sonarcloud is now scanning 74 K lines of code, which is the actual number of lines of code in our repository. We’re still facing some issues in getting code coverage, as we posted on this thread: PR decoration with SonarCloud Automatic Analysis set to OFF.

The question I have here is why the automatic analysis is scanning only 40 K lines of code and providing only a partial picture, and not scanning the entire 74 K lines of code? Is there anything that we should do differently to get the complete picture with automatic analysis?

Thanks in advance.

Best,
Delip

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Hi @delipandra,

Were you able to observe what areas of your code base (e.g. directories, file types?) were scanned / not scanned with sonar-scanner vs. automatic analysis?

Regards,
@AlxO