The Sonar team is proud to announce the release of Sonar Eclipse 2.1. This new version is the logical extension of Sonar 2.8 and provides support for Manual Code Reviews. As stated previsouly, “we firmly believe that Manual Code Review adds a new dimension to Sonar and it must be integrated as much and simply as possible to the development process and especially to Sonar Eclipse” : this is now done with version 2.1.

As usual, here is a quick overview in screenshots of this new functionality.

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You probably know already that JaCoCo is the most performant code coverage engine. But you might not know that you can now combine it with Sonar to assess the code coverage by integration tests. This was the most voted Sonar issue (SONAR-613) and the latest version of the Sonar JaCoCo Plugin solves it. I am now going to explain how.

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By default, Sonar embarks two tools to calculate code coverage by unit tests on java projects : Cobertura and Clover. But last week, we also released plugins for two other coverage tools : Emma and JaCoCo. Both plugins are available in the Sonar Plugin Library. So I thought it would be a good time to compare all of them and share the results with the community.

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The Sonar Team is very proud to announce the availability of the first version of the Sonar Eclipse plugin. This plugin is part of the Sonar IDE Project. This first version comes just few a weeks after the release of the Sonar IntelliJ IDEA plugin. The project has 2 active contributors : Jérémie and myself.

The work has been greatly facilitated by the good feedback we received from the Sonar community on the release candidate version. It is going to be followed by new ones in the upcoming weeks/months (see My proposal for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) 2010).

This version 0.1 only displays violations. Duplicated blocks, code coverage and commented out lines of code will be added later. As for the Sonar IntelliJ IDEA plugin, source code is decorated on the fly with information provided by the Sonar web server.

As usual for releases, let’s go through screenshots to discover this new functionality and how it can be used in your daily work to track violations. Enjoy !

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The Sonar Team is very proud to announce the release of the first version of the Sonar IntelliJ IDEA plugin. The Sonar IDE project consists at the moment of two plugins, one for Eclipse and one for IntelliJ IDEA, and has 2 active contributors : Jérémie and myself. This release is going to be followed by new ones in the upcoming weeks/months.

The main objective of the Sonar IDE project is to bring the power of the Sonar platform inside the developer’s IDE. In the initial versions of both plugins, the source code will be decorated on the fly with information provided by the Sonar web server. It means that the footprint of the plugins are very light and the continuous workflow of the developer is not disturbed. Note that source code from Sonar server may be slightly different from source code of the working copy, this is why a heuristic algorithm is used to match violations lines.

Version 0.1 has the following limitations : it only works on Maven projects (feel free to vote for issue SONARIDE-38 if you wish support for non-Maven projects to be added) and only displays violations. Duplicated blocks, code coverage and commented out lines of code will be added later.

As usual for releases, let’s go through screenshots to discover this new functionality and how it can be used in your daily work to track violations. Enjoy !

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This is sometimes a bit frustrating, when you are contributing to an Open Source project, to have doubts about who your users are… really. Not knowing them might lead to not understand their needs and therefore not being close enough to deliver value.

Despite the fact that we are always ready to answer questions on the mailing lists, the Sonar team wanted to be sure it knows well enough its users and their experience using the platform. That is why we recently made two polls and today I would like to share their results :

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