Black Duck Software Composition Analysis (SCA) vs. SonarQube for IDE

If you are using a lot of open-source libraries, which is most likely, this is a must-have to ensure no known vulnerabilities slip into production

Incentivized

• Quick inventory scan: Black Duck helps us scan the code repositories in no time. And quickly list the components and I now really know what is in my code.
• Security and License risk management: Black Duck being rich in its knowledge base about the vulnerabilities and license issues of open source components, quickly compares the identified inventory to the Black Duck knowledge base and lists all the vulnerabilities and license issues in the code.
• Integration for automatic scanning: Black Duck is part of devops which provides us automatic scanning. Black Duck is not just for devops but also SecOps.

Incentivized

• SonarLint highlights all the issues in our codes and also displays the severity of each issue.
• SonarLint also provides suggestions for how to fix those code issues which are highlighted.
• SonarLint starts the processing of the file as soon as it is opened and highlights all the issues which it found.
• When we fix the issue, we don't even need to create a new build or generate fresh code quality report, as soon as we save the file with the changes, it does the processing again and shows the result if the issue is fixed or not.
• SonarLint saves a lot of time and effort by saving us from doing fresh build every time and generating new code quality report every time, thus increasing the efficiency and output which is in return beneficial for the client.

Incentivized

• License model based on usage is costly.
• Documentation is extensive, but often confusing.
• Black Duck Hub could use some feature improvements for more robust governance capabilities

Incentivized

• Sometimes, SonarLint does not highlight the issues in the code correctly.
• The severity of the issues highlighted is according to the default rules set, we should also be given authority to set the severity of the issues.
• The default fixes which SonarLint provides should be more enhanced and there should be more fixes available.
• Sometimes it takes a lot of time for processing of the file when any new file is loaded or changes are saved in a file.

Incentivized

If you don’t know how to scan for the language, it isn’t entirely user friendly

Incentivized

Support seems very responsive.

Incentivized

Black Duck is an obvious choice, with its versatility, integration, best enterprise support and on top of the list the knowledge base Black Duck has. Vega or Grabber also scans the application and tells about vulnerabilities. But it can never be compared with the feature set of Black Duck. Black Duck can also generate reports.

Incentivized

SonarLint works along with SonarQube

Incentivized

• It is hard to measure ROI since Black Duck Hub saves us from costly legal battles that have thankfully never had to happen.

Incentivized

• SonarLint helps in achieving all the business requirements in a more efficient way.
• It reduces the manual and redundant work which we would have to do else every time if we did not use SonarLint.
• SonarLint helps in maintaining code quality, and thus also highlights the loopholes for the cyber attacks and phishing attacks.
• SonarLint makes work easy and helps the developer to invest less time in manual work thereby increasing their capacity to deliver the maximum output to the client.

Incentivized