TechValidate Research on Sonar

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1,024 Customers Surveyed

8,347 Data Points Collected

213 Published TechFacts

28 Published Charts

24 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


Sonar Customer Testimonial

Static code analysis is crucial, it gives feedback way before Code Reviews. Humans cannot find all the issues in code/code changes, we should use tools where possible to reduce the load on the engineering team, and basically, we should automate what can be automated.

DevOps Technical lead, Medium Enterprise Gaming Company

Sonar Case Study

Worldline Financial Services

Introduction

Worldline SA is a French multinational payment and transactional services company founded in 1974. It is the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and #4 player worldwide with over 18,000 employees in more than 40 countries.

Sonar’s administration of code quality standards using quality gates is the best in class.

Challenges

What is the top reason you chose Sonar?

  • To establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
  • To minimize application maintenance time and costs
  • To establish best coding practices in the team
  • For organizational code quality and security initiative

Use Case

Which capabilities of SonarQube are most useful for your organization?

  • Branch Analysis and Pull Request decoration
  • Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology

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

Their plan to prioritize Clean Code in their organizational goals is already in progress.

Confirmed that they never practice Clean as You Code with recommended Quality Gates on new code.

Results

They 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.): significantly better
  • Contextual guidance in the development workflow: significantly better
  • Support for languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies: significantly better
  • Administration of code quality standards using quality gates: best in class

Confirmed that after purchasing Sonar, they saw a return on their investment within the first month.

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?

  • “That it has allowed us to focus our effort on making sure new code is clean instead of addressing technical debt”
  • The ability to standardize code quality expectations across the organization
  • The reinforcement of coding best practices
  • It has made it easier to write high-quality code the first time

SonarCloud Customer Research

SonarCloud Customers

Which capabilities of SonarCloud are most useful for your organization?

Automatic analysis for your languages
78%
Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology
71%
In-context guidance & best practices to address issues
56%
Native integration with the major DevOps platforms
46%
Easy installation with no manual upgrades or maintenance required
40%
Immediate access to new features/functionality
21%

SonarCloud Case Study

Translucent

Introduction

This case study of Translucent is based on an August 2023 survey of SonarCloud customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

SonarCloud has allowed us to proactively catch bugs. We now have a codebase with an A grade for code quality and very low-tech debt in terms of hard-to-maintain code.

-Stef Lewandowski, Software Engineer, Translucent

Challenges

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

  • Establish best coding practices in the team
  • Organizational code quality and security initiative

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of SonarCloud that the Translucent uses:

  • Automatic analysis for languages
  • Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology

Results

Translucent achieved the following results with SonarCloud:

  • Saw ROI using SonarCloud within the first month
  • Estimate a time savings of 5 – 10 hours per week in resources addressing bad code
  • Developer productivity increased up to 10%
  • Focus on making sure new code is clean
  • Spend less time addressing technical debt
  • Write high-quality code the first time

SonarCloud Customer Fact

Clean Code Impact

The greatest impact Sonar has had on our organization is that it allowed us to focus our efforts on making sure the new code is clean instead of addressing technical debt.

-Security Architect Manager, Simon King

Sonar Customer Research

Which DevOps platform do you use with SonarQube?

GitHub: 18%
Azure DevOps: 23%
Bitbucket Cloud: 7%
GitLab: 30%
Other: 22%


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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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