Why the code coverage is lower than quality gate, but it still passed the quality gate?

[cathy (Cathy Wang)]

Must-share information (formatted with Markdown):

• SonarQube version 9.5
• Get the correct quality gate data.
• Setup quality gate and apply the quality gate to the projects.

Our code coverage for quality gate was set as 85%, however some projects’ code coverage is much lower than 85%, they still passed the quality gate. How should fix the issue?

Thanks,
Cathy

[Colin]

Hey there.

Can you take a screenshot of your Quality Gate configuration, as well as of a project dashboard where you expect a QG failure but don’t see one?

[cathy (Cathy Wang)]

Hi Colin,

Here are the screenshots for quality gate and project dashboard.

Thanks,
Cathy

[Colin]

Thanks.

Can you confirm that this Quality Gate is indeed assigned to that project? You can check this in the Project Information drawer in the upper right.

And, I noticed your project hasn’t been analyzed since June 17th. If you’ve changed your Quality Gate since then, you’ll need to reanalyze your project.

[cathy (Cathy Wang)]

Hi Colin,

I noticed the quality gate failed for above project for some reason today. But I have other examples as below. I made sure it use the same quality gate.

Thanks,
Cathy

[Colin]

And… in the screenshot you just shared, it also hasn’t been analyzed since June 17th. Do you encounter this issue when you submit a new analysis for a branch?

[cathy (Cathy Wang)]

I there is no new code to submit at this moment. I didn’t change the quality gate. It just passed after some time without changing the quality gate and submitting the new code. The only thing that we did is we upgraded the SonarQube to 9.5 on 6/17.

Thanks,
Cathy

[Fan_Yang]

Hi,

Could you click Project Information to show the Quality Gate of this project and share the screenshot?

[cathy (Cathy Wang)]

The project failed after the latest merge. I’m pretty sure I used the right quality gate when project passed.

Thanks,
Cathy