PushFix vs SonarQube
Deep code-quality analysis of your source tree. PushFix is black-box and needs no source.
- Free during early access
- No credit card
- Staging-first
- Evidence for every finding
- Reads your source
- Never
- Tests the running app
- Always
- Replaces the other tool
- No
Is SonarQube the same thing?
SonarQube measures code quality, maintainability, coverage and security hotspots across your source. It is a code-review tool. PushFix reviews behaviour: what the deployed application actually exposes when it is running.
Genuinely better at this
- Code smells, maintainability ratings and technical debt tracking
- Static security hotspots with rule-level explanations
- Test coverage and duplication across a whole codebase
- Quality gates that fail a build on a regression
What SonarQube does not attempt
- Runtime behaviour: response headers, cookies, session handling
- The public surface a crawler finds, including pages built by a framework
- Marketing-family checks: SEO, accessibility, performance, content
- Anything about the app that is not in the source you gave it
It is usually not either / or
Most teams keep SonarQube for the job it was built for and add a review of the running app beside it. The next two rows say which situation is yours, and neither of them is a sales pitch: one of them tells you to stay put.
PushFix and SonarQube, side by side
6 dimensions, 6 verdicts. Every row is checkable against the other tool's own documentation.
| Dimension | PushFix | SonarQube |
|---|---|---|
| Needs source code access | No | Yes |
| Tests the running application | Yes | No |
| Security review of exposed surfaces | Yes | Partial |
| SEO, accessibility, performance | Yes | No |
| Setup effort | A URL and a few questions | Server and CI setup |
| Readable report for a non-engineer | Yes | Partial |
Yes means supported out of the box. Partial means it can be reached with setup, a plugin, or an extra product. No means the tool was not built for that job, not that it is a bad tool.
Find your situation
Read down the left-hand labels until one of them is about you.
Keep SonarQube when
You own the codebase and want maintainability and coverage tracked over time. SonarQube and PushFix answer different questions and sit well next to each other.
www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/Reach for PushFix when
The app was largely generated, nobody read every line, and you need to know what is actually exposed in production rather than how tidy the source is.
Nothing on this page asks you to take our word for it. Both columns are checkable: SonarQube's own docs are at www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/, and the fastest way to judge ours is to run one review on a staging URL and read the findings.
The rest of the field
A different tool usually means a different question, not a better one.
The fastest comparison
is your own app.
Point a review at a staging URL and judge the findings, the evidence and the fix prompts for yourself.
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