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What is the reason of using jest with sonarqube

I have just started out on javascript testing and it already looks to be a vast concept. I was studying how sonarqube is used in conjunction with jest to produce test reports.

I don't understand the purpose behind using sonarqube with jest. Can' jest do the task by itself what sonarqube is supposed to do? I read on jest documentation that it can produce code coverage result, then for what sonarqube is used?

Thank You!

Solution

  • Jest is a tool for running unit tests. It will produce the raw code coverage data file. The code coverage data file is used by SonarQube to determine the resulting human-readable coverage data to display.

    Neither of them use the other. SonarQube uses the data produced by Jest.