SonarJava VS Spotbugs

Compare SonarJava vs Spotbugs and see what are their differences.

Spotbugs

SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. (by spotbugs)
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SonarJava Spotbugs
0 17
1,083 3,311
1.5% 1.5%
9.5 9.6
about 3 hours ago 7 days ago
Java Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

Spotbugs

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spotbugs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-19.

What are some alternatives?

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

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

FindBugs - The new home of the FindBugs project

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.

semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

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

find-sec-bugs - The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications and Android applications. (Also work with Kotlin, Groovy and Scala projects)

Sourcetrail - Sourcetrail - free and open-source interactive source explorer