We compared SonarQube and Klocwork based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
SonarQube is lauded for its versatility, simplicity, and integration capabilities, offering comprehensive features and usability enhancements. Users praise its customer service and support, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. Klocwork is valued for its code analysis, real-time notifications, integration options, and reporting functionality. Both tools have areas for improvement such as analysis speed and user interface refinement.
Features: SonarQube offers valuable features such as support for multiple languages, integration with DevOps pipelines, and comprehensive code quality parameters. On the other hand, Klocwork focuses on code analysis capabilities, real-time notifications, and comprehensive reporting functionality.
Pricing and ROI: SonarQube's setup cost is considered straightforward and easy, with users appreciating the simplicity of the process. In contrast, user thoughts on Klocwork's setup cost remain unspecified, leaving uncertainty about its ease and simplicity., SonarQube's ROI lies in its ability to improve code quality, efficiency, and project success, while Klocwork's ROI is indicated by positive user reviews.
Room for Improvement: Areas for improvement in SonarQube include enhancing analysis speed, refining user interface for better navigation, clearer instructions for setup and configuration, improving documentation for advanced functionalities, addressing occasional performance issues, and enhancing integration options. Users have provided suggestions for improvement and identified aspects that require attention in Klocwork.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, SonarQube takes an average of three months for deployment and one week for setup, while Klocwork varies with some users taking three months for deployment and one week for setup, and others taking one week for both deployment and setup., SonarQube's customer service stands out with exceptional support, prompt and knowledgeable assistance, responsiveness, and willingness to go above and beyond. Users have expressed confidence in its reliability and added value. On the other hand, Klocwork's customer service has been highly praised for excellent assistance, prompt and attentive response, knowledge and expertise, reliable support, effective solutions, and commitment to customer satisfaction.
The summary above is based on 40 interviews we conducted recently with SonarQube and Klocwork users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."
"The reporting helps us understand the trend of our results and whether we improve over time. We can see the history within Klocwork's server architecture and know that we're making things better. It creates a great story for our management. We can demonstrate value and how our software is developing over time."
"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."
"Klocwork's most valuable feature is the static code analysis feature. It detects the potential problem earlier to allow the developer to receive feedback quickly and then address it before it becomes a problem."
"Technical support is quite good."
"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."
"The tool helps the team to think beforehand about corner cases or potential bugs that might arise in real-time."
"The most valuable feature is the Incremental analysis."
"The tool helps us to monitor and manage violations. It manages the bugs and security violations."
"It is working fine. It provides a good value for money."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"The most valuable features are the analysis and detection of issues within the application code."
"It is a very good tool for analysis despite its limitations."
"It is a very good tool for analysis and security vulnerability checking."
"All the features of the solution are quite good."
"The way to define the rules is too complex. The definition/rules for static analysis could be automated according to various SILs, so as to avoid confusion."
"I would like to see better codes between projects and a more user-friendly desktop in the next release."
"Under NIST cybersecurity standards, we must address vulnerabilities within a specified time after discovering them. When we try to propagate those updates and fixes through the system, it would be nice if the clients could reconnect to the existing server or have the server dynamically updated in some way. I know that isn't easy, but maybe processes could be enhanced to make that more streamlined from a DevOps perspective."
"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."
"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."
"I hope that in each new release they add new features relating to the addition of checkers, improving their analysis engines etc."
"We bought Klocwork, but it was limited to one little program, but the program is now sort of failing. So, we have a license for usage on a program that is sort of failing, and we really can't use the license on anything else."
"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."
"When we have a thousand products published over it, we expect it to be more efficient in terms of serving requests from the browser."
"SonarQube could improve its static application security testing as per the industry standard."
"An improvement is with false positives. Sometimes the tool can say there is an issue in your code but, really, you have to do things in a certain way due to external dependencies, and I think it's very hard to indicate this is the case."
"SonarQube needs to improve its support model. They do not work 24/7, and they do not provide weekend support in case things go wrong. They only have a standard 8:00 am to 5:00 pm support model in which you have to raise a support ticket and wait. The support model is not effective for premium customers."
"Having performance regression would be a helpful add on or ability to be able to do during the scan."
"The solution could improve the management reports by making them easier to understand for the technical team that needs to review them."
"The product provides false reports sometimes."
"There is need for support for the additional languages and ease of use in adding new rules for detecting issues."
Klocwork is ranked 16th in Application Security Tools with 20 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 110 reviews. Klocwork is rated 8.2, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Klocwork writes "Their technical team helps us get the most out of the solution, but we've faced some stability problems in our environment". 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". Klocwork is most compared with Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover, CodeSonar, Checkmarx One and Veracode, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and CAST Highlight. See our Klocwork vs. SonarQube report.
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