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- Muting a rule is the same than deactivating that rule?
- Yes, muting a rule will mute all the current defects of that rule as well as future defects of that rule in further analyses. This way, you don’t need to deactivate the rule (that would imply to deactivate the rule for all the applications that use that model). Also, defects of that rule still exists (but muted) , but will not be considered in Audits or in the Indicators. You can later un-mute again at a later stage and will be considered as “live” again.
- Muting a file is the same as “excluding” that file from the analysis?
- Yes, the final effect is the same. Muting a file will mute all the current defects of that file as well as future defects for that file. As above, those defects will remain in the analysis, but muted, not being considered in Audits and Indicators.
Some considerations when muting at Defect-specific Level
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When you select a defect to mute, you can decide whether to mute "by line number" or "by source code".
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