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Code Climate vs ShiftLeft

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Overview

Code Climate
Code Climate
Stacks740
Followers497
Votes285
ShiftLeft
ShiftLeft
Stacks4
Followers5
Votes0

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Code Climate
Code Climate
ShiftLeft
ShiftLeft

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.

ShiftLeft CORE provides fast and accurate application security findings built directly into the development workflow.

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.;Team Sharing- Instant access for your whole team to maximize code visibility across projects.;Hotspots- A hit list for refactoring. Target your messiest areas one-by-one.;Duplication Detection- Fuzzy matching algorithm finds DRY-violations that human reviewers might miss.;Email Notification- Instant email notifications to let you know when new security and code issues arise;Security Dashboard- Organized listing of your app's vulnerabilities, including when they were first introduced and how to address them.;Alerts for New Rails Disclosures- Going beyond Gemfile analysis to let you know whether you're at high risk based on how your specific code uses a vulnerable library.;Start Fixing with One Click- Full integration with Pivotal Tracker, GitHub Issues, and Lighthouse lets you open tickets instantly.;GitHub Integration- Post-receive hooks for instant updates and GitHub drilldown links throughout.;Test Coverage Integration- Surfacing coverage information at the repo, class, and source listing level.;Private, Safe, and Secure- All data is private by default. SSL encryption everywhere.
Nextgen static code analysis; Intelligent software composition analysis; Secrets detection; Security education & training; Security insights
Statistics
Stacks
740
Stacks
4
Followers
497
Followers
5
Votes
285
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 71
    Auto sync with Github
  • 49
    Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean
  • 45
    Better coding
  • 30
    Free for open source
  • 21
    Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates
Cons
  • 2
    Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint
  • 1
    Complains about small stylistic decisions
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Integrations
GitHub
GitHub
HipChat
HipChat
Campfire
Campfire
Semaphore
Semaphore
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
GitHub
GitHub
Jira
Jira
GitLab
GitLab
Golang
Golang
TypeScript
TypeScript
JavaScript
JavaScript
CircleCI
CircleCI
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Server
Terraform
Terraform

What are some alternatives to Code Climate, ShiftLeft?

Codacy

Codacy

Codacy automates code reviews and monitors code quality on every commit and pull request on more than 40 programming languages reporting back the impact of every commit or PR, issues concerning code style, best practices and security.

Phabricator

Phabricator

Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.

Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt

It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

PullReview

PullReview

PullReview helps Ruby and Rails developers to develop new features cleanly, on-time, and with confidence by automatically reviewing their code.

Gerrit Code Review

Gerrit Code Review

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.

SonarQube

SonarQube

SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

Sqreen

Sqreen

Sqreen is a security platform that helps engineering team protect their web applications, API and micro-services in real-time. The solution installs with a simple application library and doesn't require engineering resources to operate. Security anomalies triggered are reported with technical context to help engineers fix the code. Ops team can assess the impact of attacks and monitor suspicious user accounts involved.

RuboCop

RuboCop

RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide.

Instant 2FA

Instant 2FA

Add a powerful, simple and flexible 2FA verification view to your login flow, without making any DB changes and just 3 API calls.

CodeFactor.io

CodeFactor.io

CodeFactor.io automatically and continuously tracks code quality with every GitHub or BitBucket commit and pull request, helping software developers save time in code reviews and efficiently tackle technical debt.

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