SonarQube is a web-based open source platform use to measure and analyse the source code quality. Code quality analysis makes your code more reliable and more readable.
SonarQube is written in java but it can analyse and manage code of more than 20 programming languages, including c/c++, PL/SQL, Cobol etc through plugins. Plugins extend the functionality of SonarQube. More than 50 plugins are available.
SonarQube is maintained by SonarSource.
Sonar covers the 7 sections of code quality:
Architecture and Design
Unit tests
Duplicated code
Potential bugs
Complex code
Coding standards
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SonarQube receives files as an input and analyzes them along with barriers. Then calculate a set of metrics, store them in a database and show them on a dashboard. This recursive implementation helps in analysis of code quality and how code improves over time.
Well, let's have a look at benefits of using SonarQube.
Detects And Alerts:
SonarQube reduces the risk of software development within a very short amount of time. It detects bugs in the code automatically and alert developers to fix them before rolling it out for production.
SonarQube also highlights the complex areas of code that are less covered by unit tests. It reduces the risk of misinterpretation by detecting and alerting developers.
Increase Sustainability:
SonarQube platform significantly increases the lifetime of applications by reducing complexities, duplications and potential bugs in the code, by keeping neat and clean code architecture and increased unit tests.
SonarQube increases maintainability of the software. It also has the ability to handle changes.
Improve Productivity:
SonarQube increases productivity by enabling development teams to detect and muzzle duplication and redundancy of code.
SonarQube facilitate the team members to reduce the size of application, code complexity, maintenance time and cost and make code easy to read and understand.
SonarQube decreases the risk of extra cost and time when changing the application code.
Raise Quality:
SonarQube performs as a multi-dimensional analyst and can inform on seven sections of quality. For the better quality, it avoids duplicate code, keeps code complexity low and increase coverage by units.
It can determine violations of code standards and help software development team to abolish bugs. It maintains high-quality architecture, enforce coding standards and document APIs.
This platform also facilitates developers to create a customizable dashboard and filters to focus on key areas. These tools help in monitoring the code quality and also keep track issues. It helps in on time delivery of the quality product.
Increase Developer Skills:
The development teams as a part of their development process can adopt it quickly as SonarQube provides enormous value to the development teams.
The development teams receive regular feedbacks on quality issues and it helps them increase their programming skills.
SonarQube helps developers to understand the quality of their software and ensure that it can be easily maintained by the transparency of code.
Scale With Business Needs:
SonarQube is designed to scale with business needs. There has been no limit discovered to its scalability yet.
SonarQube has been tested in environments. It performs daily analysis on more than five thousand projects with more than four million lines of code and twenty developers.
Enable Continuous Code Quality Management:
With SonarQube analysis of code becomes more easy and developers receive valuable insights to ensure that this is broadly adopted.
Code quality becomes a part of development process and part of the development teams. By enabling continuous code quality management the software quality is raised and decrease the cost and risk of software management.
Define And Increment Requirements Efficiently:
SonarQube has a set of some predefined standards that enables developers and software managers to get immediate insight into application quality. To adapt the organization or team specific requirements it can be configured easily.
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