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Codacy vs Gerrit Code Review: What are the differences?
What is Codacy? Automated Code Review. Codacy is an automated code review tool for Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CoffeeScript and CSS. It's continuous static analysis without the hassle. Save time in Code Reviews. Tackle your technical debt.
What is Gerrit Code Review? OpenSource Git Code Review Tool. Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more.
Codacy and Gerrit Code Review can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Codacy are:
- Monitoring of Technical Debt
- Automated Code Review
- New and Fixed Issues per commit
On the other hand, Gerrit Code Review provides the following key features:
- git repository hosting
- pre-commit code review
- commenting on diffs
"Automated code review" is the primary reason why developers consider Codacy over the competitors, whereas "Code review" was stated as the key factor in picking Gerrit Code Review.
According to the StackShare community, Codacy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 44 company stacks & 23 developers stacks; compared to Gerrit Code Review, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Codacy
- Automated code review45
- Easy setup35
- Free for open source29
- Customizable20
- Helps reduce technical debt18
- Better coding14
- Best scala support13
- Faster Employee Onboarding11
- Duplication detector10
- Great UI10
- PHP integration9
- Python inspection6
- Tools for JVM analysis5
- Many integrations5
- Github Integration4
- Must-have for Java3
- Easy Travis integration3
- Items can be ignored in the UI3
- Asdasdas3
- Gitlab2
- Asdas0
Pros of Gerrit Code Review
- Code review13
- Good workflow11
- Cleaner repository story10
- Open source9
- Good integration with Jenkins9
- Unlimited repo support5
- Comparison dashboard2
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Cons of Codacy
- No support for private Git or Azure DevOps git6