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Code Climate vs Scrutinizer: 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 Scrutinizer? Continuous inspection platform - improve code quality and find bugs before they hit production. Scrutinizer is a continuous inspection platform helping you to create better software.
Code Climate and Scrutinizer belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Code Climate are:
- Automated Git Updates- Nothing to install. Code Climate runs everytime you push a new commit.
- Activity Feeds- Up-to-the-minute information so you can see when and how code changes.
- Instant Notifications- Major security and quality changes pushed to where you work: email, Campfire, HipChat, and RSS feeds.
On the other hand, Scrutinizer provides the following key features:
- Continuously measure and track your code quality
- Project quality broken down
- Know your problem areas
"Auto sync with Github" is the primary reason why developers consider Code Climate over the competitors, whereas "Github integration / sync" was stated as the key factor in picking Scrutinizer.
According to the StackShare community, Code Climate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 134 company stacks & 45 developers stacks; compared to Scrutinizer, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
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 Scrutinizer
- Github integration / sync7
- Bitbucket integration / sync4
- Gitlab integration / sync2
- Private Git repo sync2
- Python inspection1
- Easy setup1
- Code review features1
- Coverage Report changes1
- Free for open source1
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Cons of Code Climate
- Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint2
- Complains about small stylistic decisions1
Cons of Scrutinizer
- Pricing1