SonarQube in Action

Software quality is about a lot more than slinging good code. As a developer you use numerous tools, techniques, frameworks, and processes as you write, organize, build, test, refactor, and continuously improve your applications. Sonar, a free and open source quality platform, makes it radically easier to track, manage, and enhance the overall quality of your code. It leverages respected tools like Findbugs, PMD, and Checkstyle, and implements well-established best practices to provide a full-featured, robust platform for code quality measurement, review, and remediation. Originally Java-only, Sonar now works with many other languages.

Sonar in Action shows developers how to use the Sonar platform to help them continuously improve their source code. The book presents Sonar's core Seven Axes of Quality: design /architecture, duplications, comments, unit tests, complexity, potential bugs, coding rules. You'll find simple, easy to follow discussion and examples as you learn to integrate Sonar into your development process. Once you've used Sonar to identify problems in your code, you'll learn how to leverage Sonar's review functionality and IDE integration to make fixing those issues a smooth and transparent process. Sonar boasts an active community with many high-quality contributed plug-ins. If you're up for it, you'll learn how to extend Sonar by writing your own plug-ins.