Welcome to the roundup of blog posts and pages that mentioned Sonar last month…

Through the eyes of sonar : Collections.
By Mestachs, 26 February 2013
After Exception handling, Immutable objects, Complexity, Naming and comments, let’s see what sonar can teach you about Collections.

Best practices of ABAP programming – Major defects
By Jean-Pierre Fayolle, 4 February 2013
We have seen previously SONAR ‘Blockers’ for ABAP, whose name indicates that any such violation cannot be tolerated, and ‘Critical’ defects, severe enough to require immediate correction, but for which an exception can be accepted, if it is very rigourosly justified. In our SONAR Quality Profile, ‘Blockers’ focus on anything that can stop a transaction or program and ‘Critical’ on programming practices that pose a risk to the performance.

Comparison of Findbugs, PMD and Checkstyle
By Markus Sprunck, 11 February 2013
The static code analysis tools Findbugs, PMD and Checkstyle are widely used in the Java development community. Each has an own purpose, strength and weaknesses. The following article compares the most important aspects and gives some recommendations for the introduction in your teams.

Sonar Analysis Using Gradle
By James Betteley, 21 February 2013
I’ve been experimenting with Gradle recently, and as part of the experiment, I wanted to get Sonar running and producing code metrics, including test coverage reports. I’m running the first release version of Gradle, so version 1.0.

Install Sonar
By Jean-Pierre Fayolle, 10 February 2013
A series of post about Sonar installation.