[FIXED] How to configure Maven to run a SonarQube project analysis with two different quality profiles?

Issue

We run SonarQube analyses for our Java projects via Maven. Maven somehow does this automagically; all we did was add the sonar-maven-plugin to our pom.xml:

<pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
        ...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.2</version>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</pluginManagement>

This works fine.

But now we need to run the SonarQube analysis twice, with different quality profiles. Since you can't easily change the project key from Maven, we use SonarQube's branch property to differentiate the SonarQube projects, like this (again from pom.xml):

<properties>
    <sonar.profile>MyQualityProfile1</sonar.profile>
    <sonar.branch>Dev_${sonar.profile}</sonar.branch>
    ...
</properties>

This way, we end up with two project entries in the SonarQube UI, both of which contain the exact same code, but have different issues depending on their quality profile (one used quality profile 1, and the other used quality profile 2).

Problem: In order to achieve this, I must manually change the pom.xml properties and run the entire build twice.

Question: How can I configure maven to simply run the sonar:sonar goal twice with different properties?

This would save us a lot of time on our builds. I already found this similar question, but no answers so far. Thanks!

Solution

Expanding on the previous answer given by Eldad AK regarding profiles:

Create two maven profiles as follows:

<properties>
  <sonar.branch>Dev_${sonar.profile}</sonar.branch>
</properties>

<profiles>
  <profile>
    <id>QualityProfileOne</id>
    <properties>
      <sonar.profile>MyQualityProfile1</sonar.profile>
    </properties>
  </profile>
  <profile>
    <id>QualityProfileTwo</id>
    <properties>
      <sonar.profile>MyQualityProfile2</sonar.profile>
    </properties>
  </profile>
</profiles>

Then run the following:

    $ mvn clean install -DskipTests
    $ mvn sonar:sonar -PQualityProfileOne
    $ mvn sonar:sonar -PQualityProfileTwo

(you may need to perform a clean between running sonar, not sure)

Answered By - John Q Citizen
Answer Checked By - Pedro (JavaFixing Volunteer)