Working with issues

For full scans

For full instance scans or full branch scans, you can only see the high level results, such as scan date, result, and the most important KPIs:

Quality of Cloud
Total issues
Technical debt
Configuration elements

→ To view the full scan result

From the Instances section, select the instance you want to see scan results for, and click View.
In the Scans section, click View in View Detail.

A Scan Details page opens with high level scan information.

You can see detailed scan results in the Quality Clouds portal at https://portal.qualityclouds.com/.

For feature branch scans

As soon as your scans finish running successfully, you can access and work with all the issues detected.

Viewing issues

For feature branch scans, you can see the full scan results with detailed issue view.

→ To view feature branch scan issues

From the Instances section, select the instance you want to see scan results for, and click View.
In the Scans section, click View in View Detail.

A Scan Details page opens with high level scan information, and all the Issues information.

You can now go directly to your code element by clicking Go to element, or see detailed issue information, by clicking Issue Detail.

The users defined in the Quality Clouds admin site as recipients of feature branch scan results will also receive an email with the issues detected in the scan.

Downloading issue list

You can download a CSV file with all your issues detected by a scan, and work with it offline.

→ To download the issue list

Go to the scan of your interest, click View in View Detail.
Click Download Issues from the Scan Details section.

Your CSV file with issues detected from the feature branch scan is now downloaded.

Sorting and filtering issues

To see issues of your interest, you can now sort and filter the issues list.

→ To sort and filter issues

Go to the scan of your interest, click View in View Detail. A full issue table is displayed.
Use the sort and filter to identify the issues you need.
- Sort for ACS (ascending) or DESC (descending) on the following elements:
  - Issue
  - Severity
  - Impact Area
  - Affected Element Name
  - Line Number
- Filter by the following criteria:
  - Issue type - type in an issue name or its part
  - Impact Areas - choose from All Impact Areas, Security, Manageability, Performance, Scalability
  - Severity - choose from All Severities, High, Medium, Low, Warning
    
    You may want to see High severity Security issues first.
Click Sort/Filter Table to see the list of issues.

Writing issues off

Skip certain issues on succeeding scans so that they do not show up in the scan in question, or in any later scan. You can identify and flag issues individually or using batch write-off. Learn more about Writing issues off.

→ To write issues off

Go to the scan of your interest, click View in View Detail. A full issue table is displayed.
Search for the issue you want to ignore.
Select the Write off check box.

You can also write off multiple issues at a time, by using the sort and filter.

→ To write issues off in bulk

Go to the scan of your interest, click View in View Detail. A full issue table is displayed.
Use the sort and filter to identify the issues you want to ignore.

You may want to write off all issues of severity Low or Warning.
Click the Bulk Write Off check box.

Working with Copado user stories

Make sure all the code committed with each Copado user story complies with the coding standards and best practices by running Quality Clouds checks from within.

This feature is only available if you have set up Quality Clouds to integrate with Copado. See more in Copado integration.

To see more, check out Working with Copado user stories.