2019-06-25T11:10:00Z

What is the biggest difference between Coverity and SonarQube?

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What is the biggest difference between Coverity and SonarQube? Which of these two solutions would you recommend to a colleague evaluating application security tools and why?

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HV
Technical Leader at FPT Software
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2019-07-15T22:59:54Z
Jul 15, 2019

Both of them are static analytic source tools but SonarQube focus on the quality of code, coding convention, and potential software logic bugs while Coverity focuses on security, it detects the code which may have a security risk and vulnerary for the attack. SonarQube is open-source and Coverity requires a license for production.

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Hello peers,  I am a Senior Program Manager at a large manufacturing company. I am currently researching both SonarQube and CAST AIP. What are the main differences between these two solutions? Does CAST AIP scan for design violations? Thankyou for your help.
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Hi Joe - SonarQube is essentially a static code quality tool and has multiple versions (community is free and then we have developer, enterprise, and data center versions which are paid). As per the latest branding from CAST, they don't market AIP as a separate product and are bundled with CAST Imaging. CAST AIP is used to onboard the code base and perform analysis and the actual products are Imaging for architecture analysis and health, engineering, and security dashboards. The dashboards in CAST are richer and have more security features compared to SonarQube. Also, CAST does not have any free community version available. Both of them do static code analysis and do not look at run time code.
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Hello peers,  I work for a large tech services company. I am currently researching Application Security Tools. Which software is ideal for code quality and security? Are SonarQube and Snyk a good choice? Are there any better alternatives? Thank you for your help.
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May 15, 2023
Hi Tej, as per my experience, SonarQube provides a better understanding of the code, it gives you a detailed analysis of the code up to the line level. It finds vulnerabilities in the code and runs test cases for you (if you add them). Also, you can customize the quality gate rules to define the parameters your code should pass like reliability, repetition of lines, etc. On the other hand, Snyk offers you an overview of the tools you are using, or the APIs you are using inside the code and gives vulnerability notifications and fixes. SonarQube doesn't fix or doesn't give any suggestions but Snyk will give you suggestions on which version of that dependency should be used and why. I have integrated both Snyk and SonarQube as both are open source up to a certain level. 
LL
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Hi Tej, you should also check out CAST (castsoftware.com). Their kit does a very thorough analysis that may be a good option depending on the complexity of your codebase. 
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