Is SonarQube Compatible with Appian

Hi Harsha,

sonarQube is a tool used to achieve code quality, currently supporting 26 programming languages.
I assume that your intent is to instill code quality for the applications build on the Appian Platform.
Then the answer is "NO".
The rationale behind is: Appian is a low-code platform. The process models defined are transformed in XML code, executed
by the Appian BPM Engine. Now way that sonarQube can deal with those constructs. Same is true for the Interface definitions where
Appian is using the SAIL code.

To achieve good quality for our applications build with Appian, we have build an application in Appian which checks that all Best Practices are
followed for Appian applications (e.g Alert settings, security settings in process models, description provided, Node assignments to groups only etc.)

Hope that helps.
Juergen

I can add also, by conducting code reviews (peer review)

I can add also, by conducting code reviews (peer review)

You are right - to have peer reviews for application build with Appian is always a good idea.
That is what we have automated with our 'Peer Review' application.

Hi Juergen,

How is your "Peer Review" app?  We are hoping to create something like this ourselves so any details you can share would be most welcome.

This could be a starter: community.appian.com/.../coe-appcop

Hi Richard,

what we basically do in the peer review app, is uploading the zip file of the application we would like to get examined. (no deployment of the application necessary). We extract the zip file and parse the xml code applying more than 26 checks for process models, rules, groups, constants, interfaces, etc., creating an interactive report about the violations found.