Cobol 1.7.1 released

This new version fixes the way to visit the execution flow.

Trial version and documentation are available in the product page.

Autocontrol for Cobol 2.1 released

SonarSource Autocontrol is a product intended for the developer, enabling to perform a local « pre-commit » quality analysis on his programs, in order to monitor the quality standards then remediate defects, before pushing back the work into SCM.

Accessible from any Development Environment, Autocontrol generates on-demand a report providing data about volume and type (critical, major, minor) of rule violations that have been newly detected in the developer’s code. This differential report is based on the last reference analysis available on the Sonar platform server.

Trial version and documentation are available in the product page.

PL/SQL 1.12 released

This new version provides improvements and new features :

• Support of Toad 11
• 4 new Sonar rules
• Parser improvements

Trial version and documentation are available in the product page.

Views 1.6.1 released

This version fixes 2 open issues.

More information is available in the plugin page.

Cobol 1.7 released

The SonarSource’s Cobol product is a language extension to the Sonar platform, that enables code quality analysis (rules & metrics) on Cobol programs (IBM, Microfocus, Acucobol, GCOS, etc.).

This new version comes with numerous improvements on the parser (16), fixed issues (16) and new features. Find listed below the highlights of the Cobol 1.7 release :

• Addition of violation filter for copybooks
• Support of Microfocus XML extension
• Improvement of the exclusion pattern mechanism

Trial version and documentation are available in the product page.
The features of Cobol 1.7 are demonstrated in Nemo.

PL/SQL 1.11 released

The PL/SQL product is a commercial extension of the Sonar platform, which analyzes applications based on the Oracle PL/SQL technology and displays quality data in dashboards.

This new version provides improvements and a new feature :

• Parser improvements :
  Support of REMAINDER, REM, subqueries, LIKE2, LIKE4, etc.
  A complete list of these improvements is available in the release note 
• New rules for code quality assessment :
  SonarSource has developed a rule engine, that makes easier the creation and integration of new PL/SQL rules. In this version, 4 new rules have been added in PL/SQL 1.11 :
  - Procedure/function complexity check
  - Procedure/function naming conventions
  - Avoid using GOTO statement
  - Use WHEN OTHERS in exception handling

Trial version and documentation are available in the product page.
The features of PL/SQL 1.11 are demonstrated in Nemo.

SQALE 1.3 released

This new version of Sonar SQALE (Quality Model) brings 3 new features:

• Linear remediation function with an offset in computing the remediation cost
• Linear remediation function with a threshold in computing the remediation cost
• A new stacked area chart, showing the history of each characteristic remediation cost

SQALE 1.3 comes also with UI improvements:

• The ability to change dynamically the depth of the SQALE Sunburst, without switching to the configuration view
• Increase of the Kiviat chart size
• Correction of minor bugs on file rating distribution chart

Trial version and documentation are available in the product page.

Views 1.6 released

Views is the SonarSource product that provides Portfolio Management  capability to Sonar platform.

This latest version provides 2 new features :

• Re-build history of Views on demand
• Use regular expressions for the selection of projects included into Views

Trial version and documentation are available in the product page.

Abap 1.0.1 released

This version fixes small issues when computing certain metrics : blank comments and complexity in a specific scenario.

More information is available in the plugin page.

Views 1.5.5 released

This version provides support for Sonar 2.10.

More information is available in the plugin page.