What are the alternatives of SonarQube for Code Quality Management?

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Alternate of SonarQube for Code Quality Management tools?

There is not a popular known alternate of SonarQube and Reasonable is definitely dominating the Software Quality management domain in terms of open source category. But you may try following tools depends on the use and project requirements.

 

JSHint (Java Script Only)
JSHint is a community-driven tool that detects errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. Since JSHint is so flexible, you can easily adjust it in the environment you expect your code to execute. JSHint is open source and will always stay this way. It is a program that flags suspicious usage in programs written in JavaScript. The core project consists of a library itself as well as a CLI program distributed as a Node module. This tool used in software development for checking if JavaScript source code complies with coding rules
More Info can be found here – http://jshint.com/about/

 

HPE Fortify
HPE Fortify Software Security Center enables any organization of any size to automate any or all aspects of a successful SSA program. Part of the family of HPE Enterprise Security Products, HPE Fortify Software Security Center is comprised of industry-leading products, solutions, and features that address the complete spectrum of your application security needs.

 

HPE Fortify Software Security Center can help you:
– Address immediate security issues in software you’ve already deployed.
– Reduce systemic risk in software you’re developing or acquiring from vendors.
– Meet compliance goals for internal and external security mandates.
– HPE WebInspect Real-Time
– Interactive vulnerability review and management
– Advanced web services security testing
– HPE WebInspect Trend Reporting
– Refined and simple usability
– Actionable remediation and compliance reports

 

Coverity
Synopsys Static Analysis (Coverity®) is an accurate and comprehensive static analysis and Static Application Security Testing (SAST) platform that finds critical defects and security weaknesses in code as it’s written before they become vulnerabilities, crashes, or maintenance headaches. It is Static Code Analysis tool. Find critical defects and security weaknesses in code as it’s written before they become vulnerabilities, crashes, or maintenance headaches.

 

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What is SonarQube and What is not?

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What is SonarQube?

It’s a code quality management platform that allows developer teams to manage, track and eventually improve the quality of the source code.  It’s a web based application that keeps historical data of a variety of metrics and gives trends of leading and lagging indicators for all seven deadly sins of developers.
Sonar is an open source platform used by development teams to manage source code quality. Sonar has been developed with a main objective in mind: make code quality management accessible to everyone with minimal effort.

As such, Sonar provides code analyzers, reporting tools, defects hunting modules and TimeMachine as core functionality. But it also embarks a plugin mechanism enabling the community to extend the functionality (more than 35 plugins available), making Sonar the one-stop-shop for source code quality by addressing not only developers but also managers needs.


Main Feature of SonarQube

Continuous Inspection
SonarQube provides the capability to not only show health of an application but also to highlight issues newly introduced. With a Quality Gate in place, you can fix the leak and therefore improve code quality mechanically.
Detect Tricky Issues
Our code analyzers are equipped powerful path sensitive dataflow engines to detect tricky issues such as null-pointers dereferences, logic errors, resource leaks
Centralize Quality
One place to provide a shared vision of code quality for developers, tech leads, managers and executives in charge of a few to a few thousands projects and also to act as a toll gate for application promotion or release.
DevOps Integration
SonarQube integrates with the entire DevOps toolchain including build systems, CI engines, promotion pipelines… using webhooks and its comprehensive RestAPI.
20+ Programming Languages
With SonarQube comes a code analyzer for each major programming language. Each analyzer provides numerous rules to spot general and language-specific quality issues.

 

What SonarQube is Not?

SonarQube is NOT a build tool. Period. There are several tools out there like Maven, Ant, Gradle etc. that do a perfect job on that field. SonarQube expects that before you analyze a project it has been already compiled and built by your favorite build tool.
SonarQube is NOT (only) a static code analyzer : It’s not a replacement for FindBugs or CPPCheck or any other similar tool. On the contrary, not only it offers its own static code analysis mechanism that detects coding rules violations but at the same time it’s integrated with external tools like the ones I mentioned. The result is that you can get, homogenized, in a single report all issues detected by a variety of static and dynamic analysis tools.
SonarQube is NOT a code coverage tool : Clearly NOT. Again it’s integrated with the most popular test coverage tools like JaCoCo, Cobertura, PHPUnit etc. but it doesn’t compute code coverage itself. It reads pre-generated unit test report files and displays them in an extremely convenient dasboard.
SonarQube is NOT a code formatter. It’s not allowed to modify your code in any way. However you can get formatting suggestions by enabling the CheckStyle, CPPCheck, ScalaStyle rules you want to follow.
SonarQube is NOT a continuous integration system to run your nightly builds : You can integrate it with the most popular CI Engines to apply Continuous Inspection but it’s not their replacement.

SonarQube is NOT just another manual code review tool. Indeed SonarQube offers a very powerful mechanism that facilitates code reviews but this is not a standalone features. It’s tight to the issues detection mechanism so every code review can be easily associated to the exact part of the problematic code and the developer that caused it.

Reference
https://www.sonarqube.org/
http://softwaregarden.io/sonarqube/

 

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