Pre-requisites: Have customer Admin permissions to access the Rulesets section in the Admin portal.
What is What-if functionality? #
The What-If functionality allows users to analyze the potential impact on technical debt and the number of detected issues if a ruleset is enabled for warning severity issues.
A warning severity issue means that an issue is detected on an inactive configuration item, or in a commented block of code. In this case, the severity of the issue is reduced to a ‘Warning’ issue.
Please find below the list of some of the issues raised with severity level ‘Warning’:
Any issue of severity High, Medium or Low while detected in a commented out line of code or any issue of severity High, Medium or Low while detected on an inactive configuration item.
→ How to Access the Rulesets Tab to Verify the Impact of a Warning Ruleset Verification:
- Log into the Quality Clouds Admin portal.
- Select the ‘Rulesets‘ tab.
- Choose your instance.
- In the Status tab, select ‘Ignore rules‘.
- In the Severity tab, select ‘Warning‘.
- Select the type of rule you would like to review.
- Click on ‘Edit’.
- Click on ‘What-if I enable the rule‘.
9. Check the projection on data to see what would happen when the rule is enabled.
Impact: To plan the quality of the project to deliver when including specific warning issues. Use the What-If functionality to analyze the impact of including warning issues on the overall project quality.
Use cases:
