When comparing SonarCloud vs Coveralls, the Slant community recommends Coveralls for most people. In the question“What are the best code coverage services?” Coveralls is ranked 3rd while SonarCloud is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Coveralls is:
Coveralls offers unlimited free support for open source projects.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Multi language
Support for more than 20 programming languages.
Pro Branch analysis
SonarCloud features automatic analysis of project branches and pull requests as soon as they get created.
Pro Free for open source
Coveralls offers unlimited free support for open source projects.
Pro Maturity
Coveralls is older than Code Climate and already supports 21 languages. It also seems like it's the most popular given how new some of the other services are, which is great for support.
Cons
Con Seems extremely Java-focused, despite advertising support for many languages
Con Setup instructions don't work
Con Terrible support
Con The user interface is hard to understand
Con It's defective and integration doesn't work properly
Con Poor tooling
Depending on your language the tooling is practically abandonware.
Con No support for common coverage report stadards
They accept their own format over their own HTTP API. Other services allow the uploading of standard reporting formats and parse them internally.
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