Module 1: Introduction to Code Quality and SonarQube

• Code quality concepts: maintainability, reliability, and security
• SonarQube platform overview: Community, Developer, and Enterprise editions
• SonarQube architecture: server, database, scanners, and plugins
• Installing SonarQube with Docker and connecting to a database

Module 2: SonarQube Analysis and Scanners

• SonarScanner CLI: scanning projects from the command line
• SonarScanner for Maven and Gradle integration
• SonarScanner for .NET and MSBuild projects
• CI/CD integration: SonarQube in Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions

Module 3: Quality Rules and Profiles

• Rule types: bugs, vulnerabilities, security hotspots, and code smells
• Quality profiles: creating and customising rule sets per language
• Rule activation, severity assignment, and custom rule parameters
• Importing and exporting quality profiles across SonarQube instances

Module 4: Quality Gates

• Quality gate concept: pass/fail criteria for code promotion
• Built-in Sonar Way quality gate and its conditions
• Creating custom quality gates for specific project requirements
• Blocking CI/CD pipelines with quality gate failures

Module 5: Security Analysis

• OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 vulnerability detection
• Security hotspot review workflow: mark as safe or fix
• SonarQube SAST: detecting injection, XSS, and insecure configurations
• Integrating SonarQube with OWASP Dependency-Check

Module 6: Branch and Pull Request Analysis

• Branch analysis: comparing new code against main branch quality
• Pull request decoration: inline feedback in GitHub and GitLab
• New code period: defining what counts as new code for quality gates
• Leak period reporting and tracking quality improvement over time

Module 7: SonarQube Administration

• Project provisioning and permission management
• Portfolio and application views for multi-project reporting
• SonarQube webhooks for CI/CD quality gate event notifications
• Backup, upgrade, and scaling SonarQube for large teams

Module 8: Capstone Project and Assessment

• SonarQube setup and multi-language project scanning pipeline
• Custom quality gate and quality profile configuration exercise
• Security vulnerability remediation and hotspot review project
• Final assessment and course certification

Experience in the Industry Learn from DevOps and application security engineers who have implemented SonarQube code quality and SAST platforms for software teams enforcing coding standards and vulnerability prevention in CI/CD pipelines.

Backgrounds at the Top Our SonarQube trainers have deployed SonarQube at software development organisations and DevSecOps teams where continuous code quality analysis is a mandatory gate in the software delivery lifecycle.

Clear & Effective Teaching SonarQube scanner integration, quality rules, profiles, quality gates, security analysis, branch analysis, pull request decoration, and administration are explained with real code quality programme examples.

Hands-On Learning Focus Students configure SonarQube scanners, create quality gates, review security hotspots, integrate with CI/CD pipelines, and administer SonarQube through structured hands-on lab exercises.

Up-to-Date Knowledge Trainers keep content current with the latest SonarQube releases, SonarCloud SaaS capabilities, Clean Code methodology, and evolving DevSecOps code quality and SAST best practices.