Browsing the Sonar web interface

Now you can add your own project to Sonar, or download open source ones to demo the platform and play with the dashboard. Verify that the Sonar server is running, point your browser at http://localhost:9000, and log in to Sonar.

The Sonar home page represents all analyzed projects in a table list form. Click on any table column to sort the project list or click on the leftmost star icon to make a project favorite.

This project list is essentially the default view, or filtered, configured, and defaulted by Sonar. The following list gives a brief explanation of each column:

• Name: The name of the project is defined inside the pom.xml Maven file under the<name/> element.

• Version: This is the<version/> element from pom.xml.

• Lines of code (LOC): This specifies the total lines of code excluding documentation.

• Rules compliance: This is a percentile aggregated value reflecting overall quality.

• Build date: This specifies the date on which the analysis took...