TechValidate Research on Sonar


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




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