The Sonar Timeline Plugin, a great addition to TimeMachine service

Straight after the Motion Chart, the Google Visualization Annotated TimeLine component gets integrated to Sonar with the Timeline Plugin.

This is really a great addition to the TimeMachine functionality as this component offers a higher flexibity : you can select up to 3 metrics and then view their evolution throughout pre-defined periods (last 5 days, last month…) or a custom period. The functionality is as usual available for projects, modules and packages.

Timeline

To add the functionality to your Sonar instance, you can download the plugin and start replaying the past.

The most sexy plugin of the Sonar forge

Last week, the most sexy plugin of the Sonar forge was released : the Motion Chart plugin ! This animated bubble chart as I used to call it can handle up to 4 custom dimensions throughout time : X-axis, Y-axis, color and size of the bubbles.
Once installed, a new link “Motion chart” is available both on the Sonar home page and on each project to respectively play with all projects or all components of a given project. It is really impressive to see bubbles moving along with time and code quality evolution.

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Sonar Time Machine : replaying the past

When talking about source code quality, at first you might think that the only data of interest is the result of the last code analysis. However, you realize quickly that this information is not sufficient on its own and should be compared with similar data in the past.

Let’s pretend for a few moment that you get a new job as team leader of a development team and let’s make a few assumptions for the sake of argument : your main objective is to increase global quality/stability of applications and you are addicted to Sonar (probably not an assumption ;-)).

The first thing to be done is to analyze source code to quickly get a synthetic insight of the situation and define short term priorities. Therefore you take the following actions :

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