Spotbugs VS SonarQube

Compare Spotbugs vs SonarQube 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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Spotbugs SonarQube
17 65
3,311 8,477
1.5% 1.6%
9.6 9.9
7 days 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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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

FindBugs - The new home of the FindBugs project

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

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.

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

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

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

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