Coveralls vs fastlane: What are the differences?
Developers describe Coveralls as "Track your project's code coverage over time, changes to files, and badge your GitHub repo". Coveralls works with your CI server and sifts through your coverage data to find issues you didn't even know you had before they become a problem. Free for open source, pro accounts for private repos, instant sign up with GitHub OAuth. On the other hand, fastlane is detailed as "Connect all iOS deployment tools into one streamlined workflow". fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.
Coveralls and fastlane are primarily classified as "Code Coverage" and "Mobile Continuous Integration" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Coveralls are:
- Repository Coverage Statistics
- Individual File Coverage Reports
- Line By Line Coverage
On the other hand, fastlane provides the following key features:
- Connect all build tools together
- Define multiple lanes for different needs
- Jenkins Integration
"Free for public repositories" is the top reason why over 44 developers like Coveralls, while over 17 developers mention "Easy to use" as the leading cause for choosing fastlane.
fastlane is an open source tool with 26K GitHub stars and 3.97K GitHub forks. Here's a link to fastlane's open source repository on GitHub.
Intuit, Zola, and Poq are some of the popular companies that use fastlane, whereas Coveralls is used by Mapbox, Practo, and Kong. fastlane has a broader approval, being mentioned in 93 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Coveralls, which is listed in 58 company stacks and 45 developer stacks.
