We performed a comparison between SonarQube and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The integrations SonarQube provides with our software delivery pipeline are very seamless."
"Before you even compile, it can catch known vulnerability issues or patterns."
"We've configured it to run on each commit, providing feedback on our software quality. ]"
"I like the by-default policies that are they, as they seem to cover most of what I need."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"The most valuable features are that it is user-friendly, easy to access, and they provide good training files."
"I like that it helps us maintain our work quality and code security."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"SonarQube needs to improve its ease of use, integration with third-party platforms, and scalability."
"If I configure a project in SonarQube, it generates a token. When we're compiling our code with SonarQube, we have to provide the token for security reasons. If IP-based connectivity is established with the solution, the project should automatically be populated without providing any additional token. It will be easy to provide just the IP address. It currently supports this functionality, but it makes a different branch in the project dashboard. From the configuration and dashboard point of view, it should have some transformations. There can be dashboard integration so that we can configure the dashboard for different purposes."
"For improvement, this solution could be offered on Docker and the cloud and the support for this solution could be improved. Customizing rules could also be made simpler."
"We had some issues where the Quality Gate check sometimes gets stuck and it is unclear."
"Having performance regression would be a helpful add on or ability to be able to do during the scan."
"The scanning part could be improved in SonarQube. We have used Coverity for scanning, and we have the critical issues reported by Coverity. When we used SonarQube for scanning and looked at the results, it seems that some of them have incorrect input. This part can be improved for C and C++ languages."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit. It's a little expensive."
"We had some issues scanning the master branch but when we upgraded to version 7.9 we noticed it does scan the master branch but we had to do a workaround for it to happen. This process could be improved in a future release."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
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SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 112 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. SonarQube is rated 8.0, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and GitHub Advanced Security, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, Fortify on Demand, Invicti, HCL AppScan and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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