Scans & Snapshots
This documentation provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform a remote scan using a shell script within a UI pipeline. The user only needs to replace their token, URL, and repository UID to scan a remote repository.Note: The repository type must be set to remote UI Instructions: To view and…
This section mentions how the data is stored in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and it can be customized by adding our own JSON objects. Code Quality JSON structure This section helps you to understand different field types, its description, its importance, and default values that areused in the JSON file.…
This section helps to understand how you can overwrite your scan configuration using a checked in file. Default Configuration Settings You can download default configuration settings from: Update configuration settings using embold.json To update the configuration settings, Update scan configurations from UI
This section covers how BrowserStack Code Quality supports custom extensions for C and C++ languages. UI Scan On UI, custom extensions can be specified with Additional Options field of scan configuration page as shown below: The flag for supplying C extension is “–xc“ and for CPP is “–xcpp“.User can provide…
Steps to abort or stop a scan: Navigate inside a repository being scanned. Click the the Abort Scan button on top bar to abort the scan. Alternatively an ongoing scan be aborted from the scan queue page or scan details page.
A remote scan is an alternate way to scan with no UI intervention. This can be done using a continuous integration toolchain, or manually via the command line. The results are then published on the UI automatically. For languages such as C or C++, a strict mode remote scan can help…
Fast scan enables you to perform a scan only on the changed files, thus giving you a significantly fast scanning experience. Steps to enable fast scan: 1. Check Enable fast scan (beta) option from the scan pop-up. Limitations: In some circumstances such as the very first scan of a repository,…
A snapshot represents the state of your source code at any given point in time. After every successful scan, a new snapshot is generated. While exploring various data visualisations, you can choose any snapshot to see results for that point in time. To manage snapshots, select the Snapshots option from…
The scan configuration helps you to fine-tune the scan by excluding parts of your code from the scan, uploading additional included directories or adding parser options. Scan Configuration pop-up can be opened from the repository context menu. The scan configuration pop-up is displayed. Fill the information in different fields. The…
