SonarQube (previous called Sonar) is an open source code quality management plat form. SonarQube supports more than 20 programming languages including Java. It internally uses Checkstyle & PMD for code quality; we can add more custom rules as required.

Features

• Architecture & Design
• Duplications
• UnitTests
• Complexisty
• Potential Bugs
• Coding Rules
• Comments

Getting started

1. download and unzip sonarQube
2. start the server
3. verify in console
4. open URL as http://localhost:9000

Analyze the code in 2 ways.

1. Using Sonar Runner
2. Using Ant script
   • setup Apache ant in your local env
   • setup required env vars like $PATH, $ANT_HOME, $JAVA_HOME
   • download sonar-ant-task-2.1.jar and place it in apache-ant-$ver/lib
   • write an ant script that does the analysis
   • place the above XML in your code base root
   • go to command and navigate to the code base and run ant with above file as input
   • ant -f build.xml

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