We compared SonarQube and GitHub Advanced Security based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
SonarQube offers a comprehensive solution with versatile language support, seamless integration with DevOps pipelines, and configurable features, making it a cost-effective choice with exceptional customer service. GitHub Advanced Security focuses on effective security measures, robust vulnerability detection, and user-friendly features, providing a valuable investment with flexible pricing and customizable options. Both platforms have room for improvement in areas such as analysis speed, user interface refinement, and integration capabilities.
Features: SonarQube's valuable features emphasize comprehensive code quality parameters, multiple language support, and integration with DevOps pipelines. GitHub Advanced Security focuses on software composition analysis, code scanning, and vulnerability alerts, with robust security measures and seamless workflow integration.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for SonarQube is considered straightforward and easy, with users appreciating the simplicity of the process. On the other hand, GitHub Advanced Security also has a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost. Both products offer flexible and customizable licensing options to cater to different user requirements., SonarQube has been praised for its ability to improve code quality, identify issues, and enhance project efficiency. Users benefit from its vulnerability detection and code compliance tools. On the other hand, GitHub Advanced Security offers enhanced security features, comprehensive vulnerability scanning, and automated security alerts, resulting in significant ROI and eliminating the need for third-party security tools.
Room for Improvement: In terms of areas for improvement, SonarQube could benefit from enhancing analysis speed, refining the user interface, providing clearer setup instructions, improving the documentation, addressing occasional performance issues, and enhancing integration options. On the other hand, users have suggested better integration with third-party tools, more customization options, improved usability and intuitiveness of the user interface, and increased speed and responsiveness for GitHub Advanced Security.
Deployment and customer support: Users report varying durations for implementing a new tech solution with SonarQube. Some took 3 months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took a week for both. For GitHub Advanced Security, some users took 3 months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took a week for both., SonarQube's customer service has been praised for its prompt and knowledgeable assistance. Users highlight the team's willingness to address any issues. GitHub Advanced Security's customer service is highly commendable, with users appreciating the level of assistance and guidance they receive. The team is described as responsive, knowledgeable, and efficient in resolving issues.
The summary above is based on 39 interviews we conducted recently with SonarQube and GitHub Advanced Security users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It ensures user passwords or sensitive information are not accidentally exposed in code or reports."
"Dependency scanning is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable is the developer experience and the extensibility of the overall ecosystem."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution as it can handle new applications along with the analysis part."
"The product's most valuable features are security scan, dependency scan, and cost-effectiveness."
"GitHub provides advanced security, which is why the customers choose this tool; it allows them to rely solely on GitHub as one platform for everything they need."
"Issue Explanations: Documentation with detailed samples. Helps in growing technical knowledge and re-writing logic to conforming solutions."
"This solution is simple to use and can be quickly deployed."
"Using SonarQube has helped us to identify areas of technical debt to work on, resulting in better code, fewer vulnerabilities, and fewer bugs."
"My focus is mainly on the DevOps pipeline side of things, and from my perspective, the ease of use and configuration is valuable. It is pretty straightforward to take a deployment pipeline or CI/CD pipeline and integrate SonarQube into it."
"It assists during the development with SonarLint and helps the developer to change his approach or rather improve his coding pattern or style. That's one advantage I've seen. Another advantage is that we can customize the rules."
"SonarQube is designed well making it easy to use, simple to identify issues and find solutions to problems."
"There are many options and examples available in the tool that help us fix the issues it shows us."
"SonarQube is good for checking and maintaining code quality."
"The customizations are a little bit difficult."
"There could be a centralized dashboard to view reports of all the projects on one platform."
"The report limitations are the main issue."
"There could be DST features included in the product."
"A more refined approach, categorizing and emphasizing specific vulnerabilities, would be beneficial."
"The deployment part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"I would also like SonarQube to be able to write custom scanning rules. More documentation would be helpful as well because some of our guys were struggling with the customization script."
"SonarQube could improve its static application security testing as per the industry standard."
"I am not very pleased with the technical debt computation."
"Our developers have complained about the Quality Gates and the number of false positives that this product reports."
"If the product could assist us with fixing issues by giving us more pointers then it would help to resolve more of the warnings without such a commitment in terms of time."
"A robust credential scanner would be a huge bonus as it would remove the need for yet another niche product."
"We did have some trouble with the LDAP integration for the console."
"It should be user-friendly."
GitHub Advanced Security is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 6 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 110 reviews. GitHub Advanced Security is rated 9.0, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitHub Advanced Security writes "A tool that provides ease of integration with the set of existing codes in an infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". GitHub Advanced Security is most compared with Snyk, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and GitLab, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and Sonatype Lifecycle. See our GitHub Advanced Security vs. SonarQube report.
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