SonarQube VS Checkstyle

Compare SonarQube vs Checkstyle and see what are their differences.

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. (by checkstyle)
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SonarQube Checkstyle
65 15
8,543 8,121
1.4% 0.7%
9.9 9.9
about 19 hours ago about 18 hours ago
Java Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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SonarQube

Posts with mentions or reviews of SonarQube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-24.

Checkstyle

Posts with mentions or reviews of Checkstyle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SonarQube and Checkstyle you can also consider the following projects:

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

spotless - Keep your code spotless

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

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

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

snyk - Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities. [Moved to: https://github.com/snyk/cli]

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

SonarJava - :coffee: SonarSource Static Analyzer for Java Code Quality and Security