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Code Climate vs Review Board: What are the differences?
What is Code Climate? Automated Ruby Code Review. After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.
What is Review Board? Stress-free code review for teams of all sizes. Review Board is an open source, web-based code and document review tool built to help companies, open source projects, and other organizations keep their quality high and their bug count low.
Code Climate and Review Board can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
Review Board is an open source tool with 1.2K GitHub stars and 359 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Review Board's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Code Climate
- Auto sync with Github71
- Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean49
- Better coding45
- Free for open source30
- Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates21
- Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code15
- Great UI13
- Makes you a better coder11
- Duplication Detection10
- Safe and Secure5
- Private2
- Extremely accurate in telling you the errors2
- GitHub only2
- Python inspection2
- Great open community2
- GitHub integration, status inline in PRs2
- Uses rubocop2
- Locally Installable API1
Pros of Review Board
- Simple to use. Great UI3
- Review Bots1
- Diff between review versions1
- Open Source1
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Cons of Code Climate
- Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint2
- Complains about small stylistic decisions1