We compared SonarQube and Klocwork based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
SonarQube is lauded for its versatility, simplicity, and integration capabilities, offering comprehensive features and usability enhancements. Users praise its customer service and support, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. Klocwork is valued for its code analysis, real-time notifications, integration options, and reporting functionality. Both tools have areas for improvement such as analysis speed and user interface refinement.
Features: SonarQube offers valuable features such as support for multiple languages, integration with DevOps pipelines, and comprehensive code quality parameters. On the other hand, Klocwork focuses on code analysis capabilities, real-time notifications, and comprehensive reporting functionality.
Pricing and ROI: SonarQube's setup cost is considered straightforward and easy, with users appreciating the simplicity of the process. In contrast, user thoughts on Klocwork's setup cost remain unspecified, leaving uncertainty about its ease and simplicity., SonarQube's ROI lies in its ability to improve code quality, efficiency, and project success, while Klocwork's ROI is indicated by positive user reviews.
Room for Improvement: Areas for improvement in SonarQube include enhancing analysis speed, refining user interface for better navigation, clearer instructions for setup and configuration, improving documentation for advanced functionalities, addressing occasional performance issues, and enhancing integration options. Users have provided suggestions for improvement and identified aspects that require attention in Klocwork.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, SonarQube takes an average of three months for deployment and one week for setup, while Klocwork varies with some users taking three months for deployment and one week for setup, and others taking one week for both deployment and setup., SonarQube's customer service stands out with exceptional support, prompt and knowledgeable assistance, responsiveness, and willingness to go above and beyond. Users have expressed confidence in its reliability and added value. On the other hand, Klocwork's customer service has been highly praised for excellent assistance, prompt and attentive response, knowledge and expertise, reliable support, effective solutions, and commitment to customer satisfaction.
The summary above is based on 40 interviews we conducted recently with SonarQube and Klocwork users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Technical support is quite good."
"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."
"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."
"The ability to create custom checkers is a plus."
"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the Incremental analysis."
"I like not having to dig through false positives. Chasing down a false positive can take anywhere from five minutes for a small easy one, then something that is complicated and goes through a whole bunch of different class cases, and it can take up to 45 minutes to an hour to find out if it is a false positive or not."
"The tool helps the team to think beforehand about corner cases or potential bugs that might arise in real-time."
"It provides you with many features, as it does with the premium model, but there are still extra features that can be purchased if needed."
"The static code analysis of the solution is the most important aspect for us. When it comes to security breaches within the code, we can leverage some rules to allow us to identify the repetition in our code and the possible targets that we may have. It makes it very easy to review our code for security purposes."
"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."
"Can tweak rules and feed them into our build pipelines."
"Using SonarQube benefits us because we are able to avoid the inclusion of malware in our applications."
"Any developer can easily identify issues using the process flow or steps provided by SonarQube. In terms of integration, SonarQube makes it quite easy, simplifying the steps for users."
"It helps our developers work more efficiently as we can identify things in a code prior to it being pushed to where it needs to go."
"This solution has the capability to analyze source code in almost all the languages in the market."
"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."
"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."
"I hope that in each new release they add new features relating to the addition of checkers, improving their analysis engines etc."
"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."
"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork. They have recently added Kotlin as a part of their project, but we would like to see more languages in Klocwork. That's the reason we are using Coverity as a backup for some of the other languages."
"The way to define the rules is too complex. The definition/rules for static analysis could be automated according to various SILs, so as to avoid confusion."
"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."
"What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity."
"A better design of the interface and add some new rules."
"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."
"Code security could be better. They are already focusing on it, but I see a lot of improvement opportunities over there. I can see a lot of false positives in terms of security. They need to make the tests more accurate so that the false positives are not detected so frequently. It would also help if they provided us with an installer."
"There are times that we have the database crash. However, this might be an issue with how we have configured it and not a software issue. Apart from this, I do not see any issues with the solution."
"Our developers have complained about the Quality Gates and the number of false positives that this product reports."
"A robust credential scanner would be a huge bonus as it would remove the need for yet another niche product."
"New plug-ins should be integrated into SonarCloud to give more flexibility to the product."
"One thing to improve would be the integration. There is a steep learning curve to get it integrated."
Klocwork is ranked 16th in Application Security Tools with 20 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 111 reviews. Klocwork is rated 8.2, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Klocwork writes "Their technical team helps us get the most out of the solution, but we've faced some stability problems in our environment". 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". Klocwork is most compared with Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover, CodeSonar, Checkmarx One and Veracode, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and CAST Highlight. See our Klocwork vs. SonarQube report.
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