We performed a comparison between ShiftLeft and SonarQube based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."When it comes to ShiftLeft, the most valuable feature is definitely its ease of use and cost-effectiveness."
"The solution can verify vulnerabilities, code smells, and hotspots. It makes the software more secure and it helps make a junior or novice developer sharper."
"It provides the security that is required from a solution for financial businesses."
"SonarQube is one of the more popular solutions because it supports 29 languages."
"Using SonarQube has helped us to identify areas of technical debt to work on, resulting in better code, fewer vulnerabilities, and fewer bugs."
"The static code analysis of the solution is the most important aspect for us. When it comes to security breaches within the code, we can leverage some rules to allow us to identify the repetition in our code and the possible targets that we may have. It makes it very easy to review our code for security purposes."
"The most valuable features are that it is user-friendly, easy to access, and they provide good training files."
"I follow Quality Gate's graduation model within organization, and it is extremely helpful for me to benchmark products."
"The code coverage feature is very good."
"Having support from senior management is crucial in making it mandatory for teams to collaborate with the security team throughout the development process."
"SonarQube's detail in the security could be improved. It may be helpful to have additional details, with regards to Oracle PL/SQL. For example, it's neither as built nor as thorough as Java. For now, this is the only additional feature I would like to see."
"If I configure a project in SonarQube, it generates a token. When we're compiling our code with SonarQube, we have to provide the token for security reasons. If IP-based connectivity is established with the solution, the project should automatically be populated without providing any additional token. It will be easy to provide just the IP address. It currently supports this functionality, but it makes a different branch in the project dashboard. From the configuration and dashboard point of view, it should have some transformations. There can be dashboard integration so that we can configure the dashboard for different purposes."
"SonarQube could be improved with more dynamic testing—basically, now, it's a static code analysis scan. For example, when the developer writes the code and does the corresponding unit test, he can cover functional and non-functional. So the SonarQube could be improved by helping to execute unit tests and test dynamically, using various parameters, and to help detect any vulnerabilities. Currently, it'll just give the test case and say whether it passes or fails—it won't give you any other input or dynamic testing. They could use artificial intelligence to build a feature that would help developers identify and fix issues in the early stages, which would help us deliver the product and reduce costs. Another area with room for improvement is in regard to automating things, since the process currently needs to be done manually."
"Expression of common vulnerabilities and exposures is not always current."
"I don't believe you can have metrics of code quality based upon code analysis. I don't think it's possible for a computer to do it."
"It does not provide deeper scanning of vulnerabilities in an application, on a live session. This is something we are not happy about. Maybe the reason for that is we are running the community edition currently, but other editions may improve on that aspect."
"It should be user-friendly."
"Code security scanning could be improved."
ShiftLeft is ranked 26th in Application Security Tools with 1 review while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 110 reviews. ShiftLeft is rated 10.0, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ShiftLeft writes "Effectively in identify and fix bugs early in the development lifecycle". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". ShiftLeft is most compared with Black Duck and Semgrep Supply Chain, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and Snyk.
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