Cost effective way to find and correct issues early
January 18, 2023

Cost effective way to find and correct issues early

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SonarQube

We use SonarQube as a component in our development and continuous integration environment when developing IT systems. The main purpose of our usage is to be able to identify and find bad design choices and mistakes at an early development stage. Developers use it both in their development environment to be able to find things before committing code and also in the CI environment after committing code to a feature branch but before merging it to master branch.

Pros

  • Identify bugs in code
  • Identify bad design choices in the code
  • Give suggestions how to solve bad design choices

Cons

  • Could provide more configuration templates for suitable warning levels
  • Improved possibility to escalate repeated errors to architects and management
  • Easy way to deactivate a warning in a specific file
  • Integration with CI pipeline
  • Integration with development IDE
  • Suggestions how to fix identified problems
  • Less bugs
  • Decreased maintenance thanks to improved code quantity
  • Education for less experienced developers
SonarQube identifies significant more thing compared to the built-in suggestions in IntelliJ IDEA. The suggestions how to correct issues are also a lot better with SonarQube. IntelliJ IDEA provides great refactoring support to make it easy to refactor the code to solve issues. We use these tools together and they really complement each other.

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

SonarQube is excellent if you start using it at the beginning when developing a new system, in this situation you will be able to fix things before they become spread and expensive to correct. It’s a bit less suitable to use on existing code with bad design as it’s usually too expensive to fix everything and only allows you to ensure the situation doesn’t get worse.

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