Quality gates, quality profiles, and rules

In this section, we will look at the default quality gate that defines the base level for passing or failing code analysis, and quality profiles is rule specific to a particular programming language.

How to do it...

1. As of now there is no project available in the SonarQube dashboard:

2. Quality Gate is used to enforce policy in the organization for static code analysis.
3. The SonarQube way is the default Quality Gate and you assign it to different projects based on the policies required.
4. You can also add conditions based on your requirement and policies you want to enforce:

5. Click on the Quality Profiles tab to get details on the default quality profiles available in SonarQube.
6. Quality...