TechValidate Research on Sonar

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1,030 Customers Surveyed

8,396 Data Points Collected

213 Published TechFacts

28 Published Charts

24 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


SonarCloud Customer Satisfaction Rating

Greatly speeds up PR review, eliminates obvious errors, and lets developers fix them even before asking for a review.

-Developer

Sonar Customer Research

Is your development team using LLM /AI tools in their workflow to generate code? If yes, which tools are they using?

GitHub Copilot
21%
ChatGPT
15%
AWS CodeWhisperer
3%
No, we don’t use AI tools for code generation
48%
Not yet, but plan to use AI tools in the near future
26%
Other
6%

Sonar Customer Research

Top Reasons Our Customers Choose Sonar

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
76%
Establish best coding practices in the team
75%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
75%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
36%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
18%

SonarCloud Case Study

Y Meadows

Introduction

Y Meadows is an advanced AI-powered customer service solution for automating and scaling support ticket management processes at small to large enterprises.

“Sonar enables our organization to achieve our Clean Code goals in a predictive and systematic manner.”
-Adam Richeimer, VP, Technology, Y Meadows

Challenges

The business challenges that led Y Meadows to evaluate and ultimately select SonarCloud:

  • Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
  • Minimize application maintenance time and costs
  • Establish best coding practices in the team
  • Organizational code quality and security initiative

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of SonarCloud that Y Meadows uses:

  • Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology
  • Native integration with the major DevOps platforms
  • Easy installation with no manual upgrades or maintenance required
  • Immediate access to new features/functionality

Results

Y Meadows achieved the following results with SonarCloud:

  • Saw ROI of SonarCloud within the first month of purchase.
  • Time savings of 1 – 5 hours per week in resources addressing bad code
  • Developer productivity increased up to 5%.
  • Standardize code quality expectations across the organization
  • Reinforced coding best practices
  • Made it easier to write high-quality code the first time

Sonar Case Study

Recruitics

Introduction

Recruitics is a data-powered recruitment marketing platform that makes it easy for the world’s leading brands to attract and hire great talent.

“We have been able to resolve security issues in code much faster and easier than our previous code security scanner.”

Challenges

What is the top reason you chose Sonar?

  • For an organizational code quality and security initiative

Use Case

Which capabilities of SonarQube are most useful for your organization?

  • Branch Analysis and Pull Request decoration
  • Portfolios and executive reporting
  • Comprehensive security reports

Confirmed that running SonarQube sometimes helps them to find and fix issues in their code without leaving their development workflow.

They plan to prioritize Clean Code in their organizational goals in the next year.

Confirmed that they sometimes practice Clean as You Code with recommended Quality Gates on new code.

Results

They strongly agree that Sonar is above the competition as the best solution for Clean Code.

Please rate the following Sonar capabilities compared to the competition:

  • Speed of analysis: Significantly better
  • Detecting issues (bugs, vulnerabilities, hotspots, etc.): Best in class
  • Contextual guidance in the development workflow: Best in class
  • Support for languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies: Best in class
  • Administration of code quality standards using quality gates: Best in class

Confirmed that after purchasing Sonar, they saw a return on their investment within 1 – 3 Months.

They agree that Sonar enables organizations to achieve their Clean Code goals predictably and systematically.

Confirmed that since implementing Sonar into their development workflow, they have saved 1 – 5 hours per week or more on average, addressing bad code.

When implementing Clean as You Code at your organization, what is the greatest impact it’s had?

  • The ability to standardize code quality expectations across the organization

Sonar Customer Testimonial

SonarQube helps us reduce the cost of maintenance and support.

DevOps Technical lead, Small Business Banking Company



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About Sonar

Sonar’s industry-leading solution enables developers and development teams to write clean code and remediate existing code organically, so they can focus on the work they love and maximize the value they generate for businesses. Its open-source and commercial solutions – SonarLint, SonarCloud, and SonarQube – support 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technology. Trusted by more than 350,000 organizations globally, Sonar is considered integral to delivering better software.

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