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dotTEST ships with a wide range of settings that allow you to create highly customize customized reports. Typically, report settings do not affect what findings are included in the report, but they allow you to specify how the results are presented. One exception is the settings that restrict results included in the report to new findings reported during current analysis (see Configuring a Reference Report File).
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You can configure a reference report file that will be used as a baseline when performing analysis with dotTEST. This allows you to exclude pre-existing findings from the current report in order to focus on most recently detected code defects.
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goal.ref.report.file=[PATH or URL]– Specifies the path or ULR to a reference report.xml file.goal.ref.report.findings.exclude=true– Enables or disables excluding existing findings from the current report.
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