Using SonarQube professionally for more than 7 years and fully recommend it to any Software Engineer
November 05, 2021

Using SonarQube professionally for more than 7 years and fully recommend it to any Software Engineer

Daniel Anjos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SonarQube

SonarQube is used as part of the build process (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) in all Java services to ensure a high quality of code and remove bugs that can be found during static analysis. The whole engineering organisation is using it, and it solves the problem of low quality code reaching to production and causing bugs and incidents due to poor reviews. With Sonar we are able to quickly identify if a new change will introduce issues in Production before it is merged and deployed. It also helps identify issues with legacy code and improve code quality in existing services, by providing solutions to known problems. I would definitively recommend Sonar to any Software Engineering company, either using Java or C++ or any other supported language.
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Security Vulnerabilities Scan
  • Multi software language support
  • Configurable quality gates for PR analysis
  • Better IDE integration and support
  • Easier GitHub actions integration and support
  • Better support and integration for dynamic code analysis during automated tests
  • Automatic Quality Gate
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Security and Vulnerabilities scan
  • Increased services reliability and security
  • Reduced application downtime due to bugs
  • Reduced time spent reviewing code
I personally evaluated klocwork in a previous company and it worked well for Static Code Analysis for C++ applications but the Java support was not as good as SonarQube.

Also the overall tooling and integrations provided by SonarQube is stellar and very other competitors can provide such services and IDE integrations.

The output results from SonarQube tests can be easily read, including by other services for automation purposes, and creating reports for audits or other teams is nice and easy.

Do you think SonarQube delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SonarQube's feature set?

Yes

Did SonarQube live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SonarQube go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SonarQube again?

Yes

There's no other tool in the market that is as reliable and trust worthy than SonarQube for Static Analysis. They are the industry standard for software quality analysis and should be part of any company that requires audits on software quality and vulnerability (like financial institutions). Of course SonarQube doesn't replace application testing and security testing by specialists, but their automated testing should be baseline for any engineers that values their time, by pointing problems automatically before they are reviewed by other specialist, or even released to production. Don't waste your company's most valuable resource (engineer time and attention) and make sure to invest in automated software quality and static code review tools like SonarQube from the start. You will regret having to retroactively fit such tools in your development process.