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PMD vs SonarQube: What are the differences?

What is PMD? An extensible cross-language static code analyzer. It is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector.

What is 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.

PMD and SonarQube can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.

Some of the features offered by PMD are:

supports multiple languages
enforce a coding standard for your codebase
built-in checks

On the other hand, SonarQube provides the following key features:

Multi-language
Detect tricky issues
Security analysis

PMD and SonarQube are both open source tools. It seems that SonarQube with 3.88K GitHub stars and 1.09K forks on GitHub has more adoption than PMD with 2.42K GitHub stars and 830 GitHub forks.

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Pros of PMD

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Tracks code complexity and smell trends
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IDE Integration
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Complete code Review
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Difficult to deploy

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Cons of PMD

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Sales process is long and unfriendly
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Paid support is poor, techs arrogant and unhelpful
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Does not integrate with Snyk

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What is PMD?

It is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector.

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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What are some alternatives to PMD and SonarQube?

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ESLint

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

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Code Climate

After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

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