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Codecov vs SonarQube: What are the differences?

Codecov: Hosted coverage reports with awesome features to enhance your CI workflow. Our patrons rave about our elegant coverage reports, integrated pull request comments, interactive commit graphs, our Chrome plugin and security; SonarQube: Continuous Code Quality. SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

Codecov belongs to "Code Coverage" category of the tech stack, while SonarQube can be primarily classified under "Code Review".

"More stable than coveralls" is the primary reason why developers consider Codecov over the competitors, whereas "Tracks code complexity and smell trends" was stated as the key factor in picking SonarQube.

SonarQube is an open source tool with 3.79K GitHub stars and 1.06K GitHub forks. Here's a link to SonarQube's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, SonarQube has a broader approval, being mentioned in 105 company stacks & 61 developers stacks; compared to Codecov, which is listed in 49 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.

Decisions about Codecov and SonarQube

My website is brand new and one of the few requirements of testings I had to implement was code coverage. Never though it was so hard to implement using a #docker container. Given my lack of experience, every attempt I tried on making a simple code coverage test using the 4 combinations of #TravisCI, #CircleCi with #Coveralls, #Codecov I failed. The main problem was I was generating the .coverage file within the docker container and couldn't access it with #TravisCi or #CircleCi, every attempt to solve this problem seems to be very hacky and this was not the kind of complexity I want to introduce to my newborn website. This problem was solved using a specific action for #GitHubActions, it was a 3 line solution I had to put in my github workflow file and I was able to access the .coverage file from my docker container and get the coverage report with #Codecov.

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Pros of Codecov
Pros of SonarQube
  • 17
    More stable than coveralls
  • 16
    Easy setup
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    GitHub integration
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    They reply their users
  • 9
    Easy setup,great ui
  • 5
    Easily see per-commit coverage in GitHub
  • 5
    Steve is the man
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    Golang support
  • 4
    Merges coverage from multiple CI jobs
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    Code coverage
  • 3
    Newest Android SDK preinstalled
  • 3
    JSON in web hook
  • 2
    Cool diagrams
  • 2
    Free for public repositories
  • 1
    Bitbucket Integration
  • 26
    Tracks code complexity and smell trends
  • 16
    IDE Integration
  • 9
    Complete code Review
  • 1
    Difficult to deploy

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Cons of Codecov
Cons of SonarQube
  • 1
    GitHub org / team integration is a little too tight
  • 0
    Delayed results by hours since recent outage
  • 0
    Support does not respond to email
  • 7
    Sales process is long and unfriendly
  • 7
    Paid support is poor, techs arrogant and unhelpful
  • 1
    Does not integrate with Snyk

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What is Codecov?

Our patrons rave about our elegant coverage reports, integrated pull request comments, interactive commit graphs, our Chrome plugin and security.

What is SonarQube?

SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

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