What exactly is the meaning of False-positive operation in sonar?

Question

When I encounter a violation in Sonar (in violation drilldown tab), in the source code view Sonar has some action like comment, assign, etc, one of those is False-positive, I want to know what exactly is the meaning of this operation, and when should I use it?

Answer 1

False-positive is then the software tells you there is a violation but you know better (like there is a reason, better than laziness, why the statement is poorly written) and this way you can mark the encounter as "Done The Right Way".

However, this functionality is sometimes used to get "clean" report for the manager. It's the worst that could happen.

Generally speaking - you should not use it.