Bae Systems

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Bae Systems

Introduction

This case study of BAE Systems is based on a March 2023 survey of Sonar customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“SonarQube can help us with compliance, and is an easy-to-use tool for analysis.”

-Karina Hernandez, IT/System Administrator,

Challenges

What is the top reason you chose Sonar?

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
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
In-context guidance & best practices to address issues
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 already in progress.

Confirmed that they always 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: Best-in-class
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 > 6 Months.

They strongly 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 more than 15 hours per week 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

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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