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During the last few months, Sonar has definitely become the leading Open Source Platform to manage Java code quality. The objective to democratize access to code quality is becoming concrete. However when analyzing source code, quality is only one ... [More] aspect of things. The ultimate platform should be able to handle Quality, Security and Architecture. Sonar [...] [Less]

On 2 October 2009, during the Open World Forum in Paris, twenty companies innovating in the Open Source sector will each have an opportunity to make a 7-minutes presentation to Venture Capitalists and major systems integrators to promote their ... [More] company and projects. They will also compete for the “Open Innovation Awards” that will be awarded by [...] [Less]

A debate occurred within the team about a year ago to decide whether Sonar should enable to report on error details of failing unit tests. One year later, it sounds bizarre that this debate could take place, given the comprehensive solution provided by Sonar to review and improve unit tests and code coverage. Here is a [...]

During the next two months, several Sonar presentations should happen around the world. Here is the list of the ones I know about ;-) 15 Sept. in Paris, I’m going to present Sonar during the “Soirée Qualité du logiciel” organized by the Paris JUG 15 Sept. in Lyon (France), Freddy Mallet will do the same presentation [...]

No one from SonarSource could attend the event. However we are proud that Sonar is going to be represented there by a company who we share at least 3 values with: Agility, Open Source (GreenPepper) and Human values. This company is Pyxis ! At the same time, the first version of the Greenpepper Sonar plugin [...]

We’re happy to announce the release of Sonar 1.10. This new version contains more than 40 improvements and bug fixes and also contains several new features. Here are the most important in screenshots : Settings at project level Most of the settings can now be overridden on projects. This enables to have a default behavior and then [...]

A lot of work was done during the last 40 years to enable the emergence and formalization of models in order to evaluate software quality. SEI Maintainability Index and ISO 9126 standard (9126-3 for source code quality) are the results of several decades of research. Those models bring value in the field of software analysis [...]

A new video has been added to Sonar TV. After “Install Sonar”, “Chasing duplications” and “TimeMachine”, Configuring coding rules is now part of the collection…

We mentioned it already in a previous post : Codehaus aka the Haus is probably the best forge available for business friendly open source projects; they have a very pragmatic approach to software development which leads them to choose and provide the best collaborative tools available on the market. Since a couple of weeks, to make [...]

A few weeks ago Michael Marth, who runs dev.day.com (Day’s developer portal), asked us if we could put together our impressions on the code quality of Apache Sling using Sonar. We thought it would be valuable to share the result of this exercise with the community. Apache Sling in a few words “Apache Sling is an innovative [...]