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.
"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."
"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 ability to create custom checkers is a plus."
"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."
"Technical support is quite good."
"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."
"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."
"It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration."
"We have worked with the support from SonarQube and we have had good experiences."
"We consider it a handy tool that helps to resolve our issues immediately."
"When comparing other static code analysis tools, SonarQube has fewer false-positive issues being reported. They have a lot of support for different tech stacks. It covers the entire developer community which includes Salesforce or it could be the regular Java.net project. It has actually sufficed all the needs in one tool for static code analysis."
"The product has a friendly UI that is easy to use and understand."
"The static code analysis is very good."
"The solution offers a very good community edition."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard, the ability to drill down to the code, user-friendly, and the technical debt estimation."
"The most valuable feature of SonarQube I have found to be the configuration that has allowed us to can make adjusts to the demands of the code review. It gives a specified classification regarding the skill, prioritization, and it is easy for me to review and make my code."
"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 believe it should support more languages, such as Python and JavaScript."
"We'd like to see integration with Agile DevOps and Agile methodologies."
"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."
"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."
"This solution could be improved if they offered support of more languages including Ada and Golang. They currently only support seven languages."
"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."
"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."
"SonarQube can improve by scanning the internal library which currently it does not do. We are looking for a solution for this."
"A little bit more emphasis on security and a bit more security scanning features would be nice."
"In the next release, I would like to have notifications because now, it is a bit difficult. I think that's a feature which we could add there and it would benefit the users as well. For every full request, they should be able to see their bugs or vulnerability directly on the surface."
"I would also like SonarQube to be able to write custom scanning rules. More documentation would be helpful as well because some of our guys were struggling with the customization script."
"Ease of use/interface."
"In terms of what can be improved, the areas that need more attention in the solution are its architecture and development."
"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."
"I would like to see SonarQube implement a good amount of improvements to the product's security features. Another aspect of SonarQube that could be improved is the search functionality."
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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