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Hound vs Black Duck: What are the differences?
What is Hound? A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests. Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations.
What is Black Duck? Open Source Security & License tracking. It is a solution that helps development teams manage risks that come with the use of open source. It gives you complete visibility into open source management, combining sophisticated, multi-factor open source detection capabilities with the Black Duck KnowledgeBase.
Hound and Black Duck can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations
On the other hand, Black Duck provides the following key features:
- License management
- PDF protection
- Trial license
Hound is an open source tool with 1.73K GitHub stars and 396 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Black Duck
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2