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


SonarCloud Customer Testimonial

With legacy products SonarCloud, allows us to measure our technical debt, and use that in our discussions of prioritizing & approving improvements.

For new products, it allows us to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to technical debt from day one.

Developer, Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company

SonarCloud Customer Research

Sonar Customers

When do you plan to prioritize Clean Code in your organizational goals?

Already in progress
85%
In the next year
9%
In the next 2 years
6%
In the next 18 months
0%

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

Sonar Customer Research

Which DevOps platform do you use with SonarQube?

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

SonarCloud Customer Satisfaction Rating

In combination with Azure DevOps, it’s very easy to work with. The pipeline integration works within a few minutes of setting up and the layout of the online portal is very intuitive.

-Software Engineer

Sonar Case Study

Podemos Progresar

Introduction

Podemos Progresar provides financial services like microfinance and credits to small businesses.

Sonar has helped us write better quality code before impacting production servers, and has been a very useful metric on our CI/CD pipelines."

Challenges

The top reasons that Podemos Progresar, a financial services organization, selected Sonar are:

  • To establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for their codebase
  • To establish best coding practices in the team

Use Case

The key SonarQube features and functionalities that Podemos Progresar use are:

  • Branch Analysis and Pull Request decoration
  • In-context guidance & best practices to address issues

For Podemos Progresar, running SonarQube always helps them to find and fix issues in their code without leaving their development workflow.

Results

With Sonar, Podemos Progresar has gained advantages in:

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

Since selecting Sonar, Podemos Progresar saw a return on their investment within the first month. They’ve also saved 10 – 15 hours per week or more on average in their development workflow. Sonar has enabled them to achieve their Clean Code goals predictably and systematically.

Podemos Progresar has also seen significant results from implementing Clean as You Code, including:

  • Focusing efforts on making sure new code is clean instead of addressing technical debt
  • Standardizing code quality expectations across the organization
  • Reinforcing coding best practices
  • Freeing time to dedicate to new projects
  • Enabling develops to write high-quality code the first time

Podemos Progresar sees Sonar as the best solution for Clean Code.



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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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