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coala vs Coverity Scan: What are the differences?
Developers describe coala as "Linting and fixing code for all languages". coala is a language independent analysis toolkit. It empowers developers to create rules which a project's code should conform to. coala takes care of showing these issues to users in a friendly manner, is versatile and can be used in any environment. On the other hand, Coverity Scan is detailed as "Find and fix defects in your Java, C/C++ or C# open source project for free". Coverity's implementation of static analysis can follow all the possible paths of execution through source code (including interprocedurally) and find defects and vulnerabilities caused by the conjunction of statements that are not errors independent of each other.
coala and Coverity Scan belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
coala is an open source tool with 2.82K GitHub stars and 1.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to coala's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of coala
- Can be run locally with Docker0
- Can fix problems automatically0
- Supports many languages0