Sonar Plugin Library

Additional Metrics

Artifact Size - Reports on the size of the artifact generated by projects.

Build Stability - Reports on stability of project build using Continuous Integration engine data.

Clirr - Checks Java libraries for binary and source compatibility with older releases.

Emma - An alternative to Clover and Cobertura to measure coverage by unit tests in Java.

GreenPepper - Collects and reports tests results of executable specifications provided by GreenPepper.

JIRA Issues - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from JIRA.

JaCoCo - An alternative to Clover and Cobertura to measure coverage by unit tests in Java.

Rules Meter - Gives information on the level of activation of projects quality profiles.

SCM Activity - Collects and reports information on commits using SCM data.

Security Rules - Enables to zoom on security rules violations to keep them under control.

SonarJ - Provides architecture governance features accompanied by metrics about cyclic dependencies and other structural aspects using SonarJ.

Taglist - Generates a report on various tags found in the code, like @todo or //FIXME tags.

Trac - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from a Trac instance.

Useless Code - Reports on the number of lines that can be reduced in an application.

Governance

Quality Index - Calculates a global Quality Index based on coding rules, Style, Complexity and Coverage by unit tests.

SIG Maintainability Model - An implementation of the SIG MM to evaluate the maintainability of an application.

Sqale (Quality Model) (Commercial) - An implementation of the SQALE Methodology, which supports the evaluation of a software application’s source code in the most objective, accurate, reproducible and automated way possible.

Technical debt - Calculates the technical debt on every component of projects with a breakdown by duplications, documentation, coverage, complexity...

Total Quality - Provides an overall measure of the quality of projects linking code quality, design, architecture, and unit testing.

Views - Portfolio Management (Commercial) - Enables aggregation of projects. Projects can be grouped into applications, applications into teams, teams into departments...

IDE

Eclipse - See defects gathered by Sonar directly in Eclipse and fix them on the spot.

IntelliJ IDEA - See defects gathered by Sonar directly in IntelliJ IDEA and fix them on the spot.

Additional Languages

C - The C plugin associated to its set of rules enables to perform objective and automated C code reviews against pre-defined or home made coding best practices.

Cobol (Commercial) - Enables to perform objective and automated Cobol code reviews against pre-defined or home made coding best practices.

Flex / ActionScript - Enables analysis of ActionScript projects into Sonar.

Groovy - Enables analysis of Groovy projects into Sonar.

PHP - Enables analysis of PHP projects by handling several tools : PHP Unit, PHP Depend, PHPMD and SQLI CodeSniffer.

PL/SQL (Commercial) - Enables analysis and reporting on PL/SQL projects. As an option, the plugin can extract PL/SQL code from Oracle Forms.

Visual Basic 6 (commercial) - Enables to perform objective and automated Visual Basic 6 reviews against coding best practices.

.Net - Provides support for C# projects in Sonar.

Web - Enables analysis of web files in Sonar. Current version targets JSP and JSF.

Visualization / Reporting

Motion chart - Displays projects measures using the super sexy Google Motion Chart Gadget.

PDF Report - Generates a PDF report with the results of projects analysis.

Radiator - Displays measures using a big treemap that can then be explored.

Timeline - Displays measures history using a Google Timeline Chart to replay the past.

Integration

AnthillPro - Enables to configure and launch Sonar analysis from AntHillPro

Bamboo - Enables to configure and launch Sonar analysis from Bamboo, the Atlassian CI engine.

Build Breaker - Makes the build fail if pre-defined alert thresholds are hit.

Crowd - Enables delegation of Sonar authentication to Atlassian Crowd.

Cutoff - Exclude files from analysis based on a cutoff date threshold, to analyze the work done on an existing code base and measure the quality of new code/changes only.

Hudson - Enables to configure and launch Sonar analysis from Hudson CI engine.

LDAP - Enables the delegation of Sonar authentication to an external system. The plugin currently supports LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory.

Piwik - Submits usage of a Sonar instance to a Piwik server.

Twitter - Creates tweet, when project analysed by Sonar.