FindBugs vs SonarJava

FindBugs

The new home of the FindBugs project (by findbugsproject)

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SonarJava

:coffee: SonarSource Static Analyzer for Java Code Quality and Security (by SonarSource)

Code Analysis Java Sonarqube static-code-analysis static-analyzer Static Analysis language-team Analysis Quality Analyzer Sonarlint Sonarcloud

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FindBugs		SonarJava
	Project
-	Mentions	-
744	Stars	1,088
0.3%	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	9.5
4 months ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Java	Language	Java
-	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FindBugs

Posts with mentions or reviews of FindBugs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning FindBugs yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

SonarJava

Posts with mentions or reviews of SonarJava. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning SonarJava yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FindBugs and SonarJava you can also consider the following projects:

Spotbugs - SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

Error Prone - Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

Checkstyle - Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

NullAway - A tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code with low build-time overhead