Can Sonar metrics for a project be viewed on Bamboo or JIRA somehow?

[Sean Wilson]

We're using JIRA OnDemand and have been testing Bamboo as a self hosted server. We are evaluating whether to move to OnDemand Bamboo because this is the only we can use the JIRA + Bamboo integration features.

For each of our projects, we would like if we could display Sonar code metrics in some convenient place e.g. such as on the JIRA project page or the Bamboo project page. Can this be done? How do our options change if we move to OnDemand Bamboo?

We've been testing the following Sonar plugin that has gadgets available for it that displays Sonar metrics:

http://docs.marvelution.com/display/BAMSON/Documentation+Home

However, it isn't made clear how you add these gadgets to your project pages and the code metric widget that appears on the Sonar tab this plugin adds to Bamboo doesn't work on Bamboo 4.2. Also, OnDemand Bamboo does not support custom plugins such as this Sonar plugin.

[Stephane Oberlechner]

Hi Sean,

Sorry for the delay, but we had the same concerns 3 years ago and we did it with CAST Software (a sonar competitor), under JIRA (not "on demand" for us)

We build our own jira "tab panel plugin" to get the code metrics, to create a tab "CAST Code quality" close to the tab "Subversion commit".

By this way, on the jira issue, you have the code updated, added or modified (subversion) and the quality metrics refering to this code (cyclomatic complexity, nb of "select *"...) . For the Project officer, this is a good way to say "I close / don't close the Issue".

You can see the result here (slide #12) :

http://fr.slideshare.net/GoAtlassian/stef-it-unite-2012

Regards

stephFromFrance

[James Dumay]

If you want to see Sonar metrics within Bamboo, best file an issue with Marvelution (creators of the sonar plugin) to come up with with a way of doing that. As you have found out, we do not have any way for this plugin to be installed on OnDemand.