We performed a comparison between GitHub Code Scanning and SonarCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution helps identify vulnerabilities by understanding how ports communicate with applications running on a system. Ports are like house numbers; to visit someone's house, you must know their number. Similarly, ports are used to communicate with applications. For example, if you want to use an HTTP web server, you must use port 80. It is the port on which the web application or your server listens for incoming requests."
"We use GitHub Code Scanning mostly for source code management."
"The solution provides continuous code analysis which has improved the quality of our code. It can raise alarms on vulnerabilities with immediate reports on the dashboard. Few things are false positives and we can customize the rules."
"The most valuable features of SonarCloud are the ability to discover vulnerabilities, security weak points, security hotspots, and all the feedback that comes into the feature branch. You can deploy the code with the security, you can eliminate the problem at the developer level rather than identifying the problem in the productions."
"Recently, they introduced support for mono reports and microservices, which is a noteworthy development as it provides a more detailed view of each service."
"SonarCloud is overall a good tool for identifying code smells, bugs, and code duplication, but we've found that using Android Lint is more effective for our needs."
"Its dashboard provides a unified view of various code quality metrics, including code duplication, unit test coverage, and security hotspots."
"The most valuable feature of SonarCloud is its overall performance."
"The solution can be installed locally."
"For what it is meant to do, it works pretty well."
"GitHub Code Scanning should add more templates."
"We had some issues with the scanner."
"I've been told by the developers that the solution is too limited. It's not testing enough within the containers."
"The solution needs to improve its customization and flexibility."
"SonarCloud can improve the false positives. Sometimes the gates sometimes act a little weird. We then need to manually go and mark the false positive."
"CI/CD pipeline is part of a whole chain of design, development, and production, and it's becoming increasingly crucial to optimize the various tools across different stages. However, it's still a silo approach because the full integration is missing. This isn't just an issue with SonarCloud. It's a general problem with tooling."
"It would be helpful if notifications could go out to an extra person."
"There's room for improvement in the configuration process, particularly during the initial setup phase."
"SonarCloud's UI needs enhancement."
GitHub Code Scanning is ranked 20th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 2 reviews while SonarCloud is ranked 10th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 10 reviews. GitHub Code Scanning is rated 9.6, while SonarCloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of GitHub Code Scanning writes "A highly stable solution that can be used for source code management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarCloud writes "Beneficial vulnerability discovery, simple to maintain, and proactive support". GitHub Code Scanning is most compared with Coverity, SonarQube, Polaris Software Integrity Platform and Veracode, whereas SonarCloud is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Checkmarx One, GitLab and Qualys Web Application Scanning. See our GitHub Code Scanning vs. SonarCloud report.
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