SonarSource is a Swiss company founded in 2008. It develops
open source software for continuous
code quality
In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions:
* Software functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specificatio ...
and security.
Overview
SonarSource is a company that develops open source software for continuous
code quality
In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions:
* Software functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specificatio ...
and
security
Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social ...
. Founded by Olivier Gaudin, Freddy Mallet, and Simon Brandhof in 2008, SonarSource is headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2017, they had more than 6,000 customers, including
eBay,
Bank of America,
BMW.
As of 2022, SonarSource has more than 7 million users, 21,000 enterprise customers, and they now support more than 400,000 organizations.
Products
SonarSource provides code quality and security products to detect
maintainability, reliability and
vulnerability issues on 27
programming languages including
Python,
Java,
C#,
JavaScript,
C/
C++,
COBOL
COBOL (; an acronym for "common business-oriented language") is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is an imperative, procedural and, since 2002, object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily us ...
.
The company offers three products:
SonarQube
SonarQube (formerly Sonar) is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs and code smells on 29 programming languages. S ...
,
SonarCloud, and
SonarLint
SonarQube (formerly Sonar) is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs and code smells on 29 programming languages. S ...
.
* SonarQube is an
open core product for
static code analysis, with additional features offered in commercial editions.
* SonarCloud offers free analysis of
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
projects.
* SonarLint is a free
IDE extension for static analysis.
Financial backing
In 2016, the company raised of funding from
Insight Venture Partners
Insight Partners (previously Insight Venture Partners) is an American venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City. The firm invests in growth-stage technology, software and Internet businesses.
History
Insight Partners was fo ...
, a US investment firm.
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References
2008 establishments in Switzerland
Software companies of Switzerland
Companies based in Geneva