This is an integration test suite for the SonarQube C++ Community Plugin. It
provides a means to check that the plugin works (or works not) with a
particular SonarQube version/setup.


Preconditions
=============

Make sure the following preconditions are met, before running the test suite:

* Python is installed
* behave (http://pythonhosted.org/behave/) is installed
* request module is available ('pip install requests' may help)
* Optional: colorama module is installed ('pip install colorama')


Usage
=====
Either install the plugin, startup SonarQube manually and simply run:

$ behave

from the project root folder or let the test suite do the job by
telling it the path to your SQ installation:

$ SONARHOME=/path/to/SonarQuebe behave

In the latter case, the suite will automatically install and test the
jar in sonar-python-plugin/target. So make sure the plugin is build
and the jar is available.


Features to test
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- core/common:
  - finding reports
    - using slashes as separators
    - using backslashes as separators
    - using div. patterns

- Import of the coverage data
  - BullsEye, coberture and VisualStudio formats
  - unit test, integration test & overall test coverage
  - line and branch coverage
  - valid, invalid and missing reports

- Import of compiler warnings
  - GCC and VS formats
  - valid, invalid and missing reports
  - wrong encoding
  - custom regex?

- Detection of duplicated C++ code

- Import of CppCheck reports
  - V1 and V2 formats
  - valid, invalid and missing reports
  - unknown rule


- Rules from the common-repository
- Rules implemented in the plugin
- Multi-language support
- Multi-module support


Why behave/Python
=================
Gherkin as a specification language is quite an obvious choice because
of its clarity. JBehave seems to be big and bloated. Besides, its just
faster to write the steps implementation in something like
Python. Hence behave.