Monday, February 29, 2016

Open source platform for continuous inspection of code quality : SonarQube

SonarQube can perform analysis on 20+ different languages. The outcome of this analysis will be quality measures and issues (instances where coding rules were broken). SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality. There are three different paradigms for SonarQube analysis. You switch among the three modes using the sonar.analysis.mode analysis parameter with one of these three values:
publish - this is the default. This mode analyzes everything that's analyze-able for the languages in question and pushes the results to the server for processing.
preview - is typically used to determine whether code changes are good enough to move forward with, E.G. merge into the Git master.
issues - is a "preview" equivalent intended for use by tools. You should never need to use it manually.
SonarQube covers the 7 axes of code quality:
  • Architecture & Design
  • Comments
  • Coding rules
  • Potential bugs
  • Complexity
  • Unit tests
  • Duplications
Features
  • Supports languages: Java, C/C++, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Flex, Groovy, JavaScript, Python, PL/SQL, COBOL, etc.
  • Can also be used in Android development.
  • Offers reports on duplicated code, coding standards, unit tests, code coverage, code complexity, potential bugs, comments and design and architecture.
  • Records metrics history and provides evolution graphs ("time machine") and differential views.
  • Provides fully automated analyses: integrates with Maven, Ant, Gradle and continuous integration tools (Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins, Hudson, etc.).
  • Integrates with the Eclipse development environment
  • Integrates with external tools: JIRA, Mantis, LDAP, Fortify, etc.
  • Is expandable with the use of plugins.
  • Implements the SQALE methodology to compute technical debt.

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