Does jQAssistant silently drop constraints with lower severity than configured in POM?

Question

In a (multi module, but that shouldn't matter here) Maven project, the jqassistant-maven-plugin is configured as follows:

<configuration>
  <failOnViolations>true</failOnViolations>
  <severity>crititical</severity>
  <groups>
    <group>tests</group>
  <groups>
</configuration>

Some constraints group is configured like this:

<group id="tests" severity="major">
  <includeConstraint refId="rules:TestClassName" />
  <includeConstraint refId="rules:TestMethodName" />
  <includeConstraint refId="rules:TestClassOrMethodIgnored" />
</group>

When running the build (or executing the jqassistant:analyze goal), the constraints of the tests group do not seem to be executed - or, at least, their results are not reported, like they are, when setting <severity> to major. The documentation does not explicitly mention this kind of behaviour.

So: does jQAssistant silently drop constraints with a severity lower than the one configured for the Maven plugin, or does it just hide the violations? And - is there a way to have it show even violations of constraints with a lower severity?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '17 at 12:15

The constraints are executed but will not be reported on the Maven or commandline console if the severity is lower than the configured one.

The file "jqassistant-report.xml" contains the results and can be transformed into an HTML document (e.g. by executing the Maven goal jqassistant:report).

BTW: The next release will provide deprecate the options "severity" and "failInViolations" and replace them with "warnOnSeverity" and "failOnSeverity" which should make the behavior more clear.

Does jQAssistant silently drop constraints with lower severity than configured in POM?

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