SonarQube vs SonarScanner

SonarQube is an open-source platform that continuously checks the quality of code. In over 25 programming languages, it automatically evaluates code to find errors, weaknesses and code smells.

SonarScanner is mainly used for the Code analysis on projects . This is a command-line tool. The analysis's findings are transmitted to a SonarQube server.

• Purpose: SonarQube's main purpose is to offer a centralized server for the storage and analysis of code quality information. The dashboard that shows the analysis results includes data such as code smells, security vulnerabilities, test coverage and duplications.

• Features:

• Allows for integration with a number of CI/CD systems, including Azure DevOps, Jenkins and GitLab.

• provides a wide range of plugins to improve functionality.

• offers comprehensive dashboards and reports for monitoring code quality over time.

• Before merging code into main branches, it is possible to put up quality gates to enforce code quality standards.

• Purpose: The main goal of SonarScanner is to review the source code and gather data that SonarQube may utilize to produce metrics and insights into the quality of the code. It functions as an intermediary between your source code and SonarQube.

• How It Works:

• To examine the source code, SonarScanner is run locally or as a component of a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.

• By the rules established on the SonarQube server, it searches the codebase.

• After the analysis is finished, the findings are sent to SonarQube for further action and visualization.

   

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