Monitoring code quality with SonarQube
SonarQube is a web-based open source continuous quality assessment dashboard. It comes with a GNU General Public License and supports cross-platform, so it can be installed on many popular operating systems. SonarQube is developed in Java. As of March 2014, the latest version is 4.1.2.
SonarQube exhibits the following features:
It is a web-based code quality dashboard that can be accessed from anywhere.
It supports numerous languages. The languages and coding platforms supported in Version 4.1.2 are ABAP, Android, C/C++, C#, COBOL, Erlang, Flex/ActionScript, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Natural, PHP, PL/I, PL/SQL, Python, VB.NET, Visual Basic 6, Web (analysis of HTML included in pages on HTML, JSP, JSF, Ruby, PHP, and so on), and XML.
It offers the following metrics:
Bugs and potential bugs
Breach in coding standards
Duplications
Lack of unit tests
Bad distribution of complexities
Spaghetti design
Not enough or too many comments
It records history in a database and...
