We performed a comparison between GitHub Code Scanning and SonarQube based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."We use GitHub Code Scanning mostly for source code management."
"Engineers have also learned from the results and have improved themselves as engineers. This will help them with their careers."
"It is very good at identifying technical debt."
"Before you even compile, it can catch known vulnerability issues or patterns."
"It assists during the development with SonarLint and helps the developer to change his approach or rather improve his coding pattern or style. That's one advantage I've seen. Another advantage is that we can customize the rules."
"It provides you with many features, as it does with the premium model, but there are still extra features that can be purchased if needed."
"SonarQube is designed well making it easy to use, simple to identify issues and find solutions to problems."
"The good thing with SonarQube is it covers a lot of issues, it's a very robust framework."
"If you want to have your code scanned and timed then this is a good tool."
"GitHub Code Scanning should add more templates."
"We've been using the Community Edition, which means that we get to use it at our leisure, and they're kind enough to literally give it to us. However, it takes a fair amount of effort to figure out how to get everything up and running. Since we didn't go with the professional paid version, we're not entitled to support. Of course that could be self-correcting if we were to make the step to buy into this and really use it. Then their technical support would be available to us to make strides for using it better."
"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."
"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."
"There is need for support for the additional languages and ease of use in adding new rules for detecting issues."
"There are limitations to the free version that limit development options as far as languages."
"The implementation of the solution is straightforward. However, we did have some initial initialization issues at the of the projects. I don't think it was SonarQube's fault. It was the way it was implemented in our organization because it's mainly integrated with many software, such as Jira, Confluence, and Butler."
"SonarQube could improve by adding automatic creation of tasks after scanning and more support for the Czech language."
"We found a solution with dynamic testing, and are looking to find a solution that can be used for both types of testing."
GitHub Code Scanning is ranked 20th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 1 review while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Testing (AST) with 110 reviews. GitHub Code Scanning is rated 10.0, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. 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 SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". GitHub Code Scanning is most compared with SonarCloud, Coverity and Polaris Software Integrity Platform, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and Snyk.
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