Prevent overlapping metrics

[Sebastiaan127001]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm always frustrated when SonarQube reports a code smell and two metrics turn in near target state (yellow/amber). The team interprets this as a double penalty for only one mistake. The problem arises when the user configures the metric 'Violations' with SonarQube as a source and code_smell included in the filter and on the same Quality-time report exists a metric 'Complex units' for instance. When there is a complex unit in the source code, SonarQube reports this once, and it is reflected twice on the Quality-time report. The user does not know if it is safe to remove the code_smell filter in the Violations metric because this could result in missing warnings from SonarQube.

The following metrics seem to be included in the Violations - code_smell filter, but it is unclear if this is the complete list.

• Commented out code
• Complex units
• Duplicate lines ??
• Long units
• Many parameters

Describe the solution you'd like That Quality-time warns the user which metrics have overlap to avoid duplicate warnings for the same violation.