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Code Spotter vs Gerrit Code Review: What are the differences?
Code Spotter: Cloud-based Static Code Analysis for Java. Boolean satisfiability. Interprocedural data flow. Statistical analysis. We’ve got them all. Plus false path pruning, which understands the data dependencies in your code and eliminates infeasible paths from the analysis so you don’t waste time triaging non issues; 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.
Code Spotter and Gerrit Code Review can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Code Spotter are:
- Accurate Java source code analysis
- Easy to understand results
- Uncover issues faster with deep source code analysis – find that needle in the haystack.
On the other hand, Gerrit Code Review provides the following key features:
- git repository hosting
- pre-commit code review
- commenting on diffs
Pros of Code Spotter
Pros of Gerrit Code Review
- Code review13
- Good workflow11
- Cleaner repository story10
- Open source9
- Good integration with Jenkins9
- Unlimited repo support5
- Comparison dashboard2