SonarQube is a universal tool for static code analysis that has become more or less the industry standard. Keeping code clean, simple, and easy to read is also a lot easier with SonarQube.

What is SonarQube?

SonarQube (formerly Sonar) is an open-source platform developed by Sonar Source for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities on 20+ programming languages. SonarQube offers reports on duplicated code, coding standards, unit tests, code coverage, code complexity, comments, bugs, and security vulnerabilities

Benefits of SonarQube

a) Sustainability

b) Increase productivity

c) Quality

d) Detect Errors

e) Increase consistency

f) Business scaling

g) Enhance developer skills

Why SonarQube is important for IT projects?

When we work on any software project then our main focus is to achieve the ultimate goal which is to finish the functionality and deliver it to the customer in a given timeline. It is so important for us that many times we use to compromise with the code quality, potential bugs, code duplications, and bad distribution of complexity not only that but also, we use to left unused variables, methods, etc. Our application would work in the desired way, but do you think this is a proper way to deliver the projects? It is Not. We should deliver the software with clean code, without code duplication, less code complexity, and without any potential bugs.

To achieve these qualities in code we should keep that in mind and should always follow good coding practice but sometimes it is not possible to follow the rules and maintain the good quality as there may be n number of reasons. So we need a tool that not only works once to check and tell us the issues in code but also tracks and monitors the code to check continuous code quality in order to achieve continuous code integration and deployment. For these requirements, we have a product SonarQube which has all these features. Now let us discuss more it.

SonarQube is a widely used tool for Continuous Code Quality. SonarQube is open-source software that can be used for continuous tracking of bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells for more than 20 different programming languages like C#, Java, C, C++, PHP, .Net, JavaScript, Python, etc. SonarQube provides the capability to monitor the health of the application and highlights the newly introduced issues

Conclusion

The goal of SonarQube is to empower developers first and to grow an open community around the quality and security of code.