We performed a comparison between WhiteSource and SonarQube based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SonarQube comes out on top in this comparison. It is high performing and user-friendly. In addition, it is less expensive than WhiteSource.
"The most valuable feature is the unified JAR to scan for all langs (wss-scanner jar)."
"What is very nice is that the product is very easy to set up. When you want to implement Mend.io, it just takes a few minutes to create your organization, create your products, and scan them. It's really convenient to have Mend scanning your products in less than one hour."
"The most valuable features are the reporting, customizing libraries "In-house, White list, license selection", comparing the products/projects, and License & Copyright resolution."
"WhiteSource helped reduce our mean time to resolution since the adoption of the product."
"The most valuable feature is the inventory, where it compiles a list of all of the third-party libraries that we have on our estate."
"It gives us full visibility into what we're using, what needs to be updated, and what's vulnerable, which helps us make better decisions."
"Enables scanning/collecting third-party libraries and classifying license types. In this way we ensure our third-party software policy is followed."
"There are multiple different integrations there. We use Mend for CI/CD that goes through Azure as well. It works seamlessly. We never have any issues with it."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard reports and the ease of integrating it with Jenkins."
"There are many options and examples available in the tool that help us fix the issues it shows us."
"It easily ties into our continuous integration pipeline."
"This solution has the capability to analyze source code in almost all the languages in the market."
"The product is simple."
"Improve the code coverage and evaluates the technical steps and percentage of code being resolved."
"When comparing other static code analysis tools, SonarQube has fewer false-positive issues being reported. They have a lot of support for different tech stacks. It covers the entire developer community which includes Salesforce or it could be the regular Java.net project. It has actually sufficed all the needs in one tool for static code analysis."
"With SonarQube's web interface, it is easy to drill down to see the individual problems, but also to look at the project from above and get the big picture, with possible larger problem areas."
"WhiteSource only produces a report, which is nice to look at. However, you have to check that report every week, to see if something was found that you don't want. It would be great if the build that's generating a report would fail if it finds a very important vulnerability, for instance."
"The dashboard UI and UX are problematic."
"Make the product available in a very stable way for other web browsers."
"I rated the solution an eight out of ten because WhiteSource hasn't built in a couple of features that we would have loved to use and they say they're on their roadmap. I'm hoping that they'll be able to build and deliver in 2022."
"It would be nice to have a better way to realize its full potential and translate it within the UI or during onboarding."
"The UI can be slow once in a while, and we're not sure if it's because of the amount of data we have, or it is just a slow product, but it would be nice if it could be improved."
"At times, the latency of getting items out of the findings after they're remediated is higher than it should be."
"Some detected libraries do not specify a location of where in the source they were matched from, which is something that should be enhanced to enable quicker troubleshooting."
"The solution is a bit lacking on the security side, in terms of finding and identifying vulnerabilities."
"Having performance regression would be a helpful add on or ability to be able to do during the scan."
"I find it is light on the security side."
"One thing to improve would be the integration. There is a steep learning curve to get it integrated."
"If you don't have any experience with the configuration or how to configure the files, it can be complicated."
"There are sometimes security breaches in our code, which aren't be caught by SonarQube. In the security area, SonarCube has to improve. It needs to better compete with other products."
"We found a solution with dynamic testing, and are looking to find a solution that can be used for both types of testing."
"The reporting can be improved."
Mend.io is ranked 5th in Application Security Tools with 29 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 108 reviews. Mend.io is rated 8.4, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". 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". Mend.io is most compared with Black Duck, Snyk, Checkmarx One, Veracode and JFrog Xray, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and GitLab. See our Mend.io vs. SonarQube report.
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