Go test execution reports do not populate Errors or Unit Test Success

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Hello,

We are importing native Go test-execution results into SonarQube Server using go test -json.

Environment

  • SonarQube Server: 2026.1.0 (build 119033)

  • SonarScanner CLI: 7.2.0.5079

  • Go version: 1.22

  • Analysis type: Main Branch

What are we trying to achieve?

We would like SonarQube to display the complete set of test-execution measures for our Go project, including:

  • Tests

  • Failures

  • Errors

  • Skipped tests

  • Execution time

  • Unit Test Success

Current configuration

The Go test-execution report is generated with:

go test -v -json \
  -coverprofile=unit.out \
  -covermode=atomic ./... \
  2>&1 | tee unit.json

The reports are imported using:

sonar.go.tests.reportPaths=<path-to-unit.json>
sonar.go.coverage.reportPaths=<path-to-unit.out>

Observed behaviour

SonarQube successfully imports the report and displays:

  • Tests: 54

  • Failures: 0

  • Skipped: 0

  • Execution time

However, the following measures are absent rather than displayed with a value:

  • Unit Test Errors (test_errors)

  • Unit Test Success (test_success_density)

The relevant scanner log contains no import warnings:

Investigation performed

The official Go JSON test-event format provides pass, fail, and skip actions, but it does not provide a separate error outcome:

The current SonarGo importer appears to save the following metrics:

  • SKIPPED_TESTS

  • TEST_EXECUTION_TIME

  • TESTS

  • TEST_FAILURES

It does not appear to save TEST_ERRORS:

SonarQube defines Unit Test Success as:

test_success_density =
    (tests - (test_errors + test_failures)) / tests * 100

Because the native Go importer does not appear to populate test_errors, it seems that SonarQube cannot calculate test_success_density.

Metric definition:

Is the absence of test_errors and test_success_density intentional for native Go test-execution reports? Is there a workaround to achieve those metrics?

Thank you.