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Adjusting quality settings#

The Quality settings give you control over the status of analyzed commits and pull requests, as well as the quality level thresholds in your repository dashboard. This feature also allows you to turn off metrics like duplication or complexity.

To access the quality settings, open your repository Settings, tab Quality Settings. On this page there are three sections where you can set specific values at the commit, pull request, and repository levels. Click Edit settings to edit the settings on each section.

Quality settings

The following sections explain the settings in detail.

Commits#

These settings configure quality thresholds for commits, as displayed on the Commits page.

Quality settings for commits

  • New issues are over: Commits are marked not up to standards if the number of issues introduced that have at least the specified severity level is bigger than the set value. The default value is 0.
  • New security issues are over: Commits are marked not up to standards if the number of security issues introduced is bigger than the set value. By default, this setting is off.
  • Complexity is over: Commits are marked not up to standards if the introduced complexity is bigger than the set value. By default, this setting is off.
  • Duplication is over: Commits are marked not up to standards if the number of clones introduced is bigger than the set value. By default, this setting is off.
  • Coverage variation is under: Commits are marked not up to standards if the coverage introduced is smaller than the set value. This value refers to the variation of coverage on your commit. For example, if your repository has 90% coverage and you want to make sure that this value doesn't decrease, set the value to 0%. By default, this setting is off. The maximum value is 1%.

Pull Requests#

These settings configure quality thresholds for pull requests, as displayed on the Pull Requests page.

Tip

After enabling these settings you can set Codacy as a required check before merging your pull requests.

Quality settings for pull requests

  • New issues are over: Pull requests are marked not up to standards if the number of issues introduced that have at least the specified severity level is bigger than the set value. The default value is 0.
  • New security issues are over: Pull requests are marked not up to standards if the number of security issues introduced is bigger than the set value. By default, this setting is off.
  • Complexity is over: Pull requests are marked not up to standards if the introduced complexity is bigger than the set value. By default, this setting is off.
  • Duplication is over: Pull requests are marked not up to standards if the number of clones introduced is bigger than the set value. By default, this setting is off.
  • Coverage variation is under: Pull requests are marked not up to standards if the coverage introduced is smaller than the set value. This value refers to the variation of coverage on your pull request. For example, if your repository has 90% coverage and you want to make sure that this value doesn't decrease, set the value to 0%. By default, this setting is off. The maximum value is 1%.

Repository#

These settings configure quality thresholds for the repository, as displayed on the Repository Dashboard.

Quality settings for the repository

  • Issues are over: Defines the threshold displayed on the tab Issues of the quality evolution chart.
  • Complexity of files is over: Defines the threshold displayed on the tab Complexity of the quality evolution chart.
  • File is complex when over: A file is considered complex when its complexity is over this value.
  • Duplication of files is over: Defines the threshold displayed on the tab Duplication of the quality evolution chart.
  • File is duplicate when over: A file is considered duplicated when it has more clones than this value.
  • Coverage is under: Defines the threshold displayed on the tab Coverage of the quality evolution chart.

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Last modified August 17, 2021