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What is SonarScanner?

Posted on by Arif Clayton

What is SonarScanner?

SonarScanner is a separate client type application that in connection with the SonarQube server will run project analysis and then send the results to the SonarQube server to process it. SonarScanner can handle most programming languages supported by SonarQube except C# and VB.

Can SonarQube scan .NET Code?

The SonarScanner for . NET is the recommended way to launch an analysis for projects/solutions using MSBuild or dotnet command as a build tool. It is the result of a collaboration between SonarSource and Microsoft. SonarScanner for .

Is SonarQube free?

SonarQube is available for free under the GNU Lesser General Public License. An enterprise version for paid licensing also exists, as well as a data center edition that supports high availability.

How do I download SonarScanner?

To run SonarScanner from the zip file, follow these steps:

  1. Expand the downloaded file into the directory of your choice.
  2. Add the $install_directory/bin directory to your path.
  3. Verify your installation by opening a new shell and executing the command sonar-scanner -h ( sonar-scanner.bat -h on Windows).

What is the difference between SonarQube and Sonarscanner?

1 Answer. SonarQube is the central server holding the results of analysis. SonarQube Scanner / sonar-scanner – performs analysis and sends the results to SonarQube. It is a generic, CLI scanner, and you must provide explicit configurations that list the locations of your source files, test files, class files.

What is SonarLint?

SonarLint is an IDE extension that helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write code. Like a spell checker, SonarLint squiggles flaws so that they can be fixed before committing code.

Does SonarQube run unit tests?

SonarQube doesn’t run your tests or generate reports. To include coverage results in your analysis, you need to set up a third-party coverage tool to generate reports and configure SonarQube to import those reports.

Why do we need sonar scanner?

Well, as I told in the description, SonarQube is an open-source automatic code review tool to detect bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells in your code. It provides us with a beautiful dashboard with the functionality of in-detail scanning data where we can analyze our code quality and improve it.

How do I run SonarQube on Windows 10?

Run SonarQube without installation

  1. Navigate to the earlier download location of SonarQube.
  2. Unzip the file and copy the binaries to the folder C:\SonarQube\
  3. Open the SonarQube properties file sonar.
  4. In the sonar.
  5. Update the section by adding the connection string of the database.

What are the benefits of SonarQube?

Benefits of SonarQube

  • Sustainability – Reduces complexity, possible vulnerabilities, and code duplications, optimising the life of applications.
  • Increase productivity – Reduces the scale, cost of maintenance, and risk of the application; as such, it removes the need to spend more time changing the code.

How do I run Sonar?

First steps

  1. Run SonarQube server.
  2. Run docker ps and check if a server is up and running.
  3. Wait for the server to start and log in to SonarQube server on http://localhost:9000 using default credentials: login: admin password: admin.
  4. Go to: http://localhost:9000/account/security/ and generate a token.

What is true about SonarQube managing security?

The correct answer to the question “Which is true about SonarQube managing security?” is, option (B). Rules are collected in Quality Profile. If you are interested in breaking into the DevOps sector, check out the DevOps course from Intellipaat. Also, watch the below-posted video on SonarQube Basics.

Is there a sonarscanner for.net core 2.1?

The SonarScanner for .Net Core 2.1 allows easy analysis of any .NET project with SonarCloud/SonarQube. There is a newer version of this package available. See the version list below for details. This package contains a .NET tool you can call from the shell/command line. This package contains a .NET tool you can call from the shell/command line.

How to get rid of SonarQube 4.5 port number?

There are two ways to get rid of this, Identify the port number using log file(sonarqube-4.5\\logs). Then identify the PID for that process. Then kill the process using PID.

Which is the latest version of sonarscanner for MSBuild?

Since version 5.0, the SonarScanner for MSBuild is now the SonarScanner for .NET. Documentation is updated with that new name, artifacts and links will remain with the old name for now.

How to uncomment the global settings of SonarQube?

Uncomment, and update the global settings to point to your SonarQube server by editing $install_directory/SonarQube.Analysis.xml. Values set in this file will be applied to all analyses of all projects unless overwritten locally.