SonarQube vs Coverity: Quality vs Defect Detection

Quick Verdict SonarQube and Coverity are both static analysis tools, but they approach the problem from fundamentally different directions. SonarQube is a developer-centric code quality platform that covers 35+ languages with quality gates, technical debt tracking, and basic security scanning. Coverity is a deep defect detection engine built for finding the most dangerous bugs in C/C++, Java, and C# - memory corruption, concurrency defects, resource leaks, and complex security vulnerabilities th