Codacy vs Gerrit Code Review

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Codacy vs Gerrit Code Review: What are the differences?

What is Codacy? Automated Code Review. Codacy is an automated code review tool for Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CoffeeScript and CSS. It's continuous static analysis without the hassle. Save time in Code Reviews. Tackle your technical debt.

What is 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.

Codacy and Gerrit Code Review can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.

Some of the features offered by Codacy are:

  • Monitoring of Technical Debt
  • Automated Code Review
  • New and Fixed Issues per commit

On the other hand, Gerrit Code Review provides the following key features:

  • git repository hosting
  • pre-commit code review
  • commenting on diffs

"Automated code review" is the primary reason why developers consider Codacy over the competitors, whereas "Code review" was stated as the key factor in picking Gerrit Code Review.

According to the StackShare community, Codacy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 44 company stacks & 23 developers stacks; compared to Gerrit Code Review, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of Codacy
Pros of Gerrit Code Review
  • 44
    Automated code review
  • 35
    Easy setup
  • 29
    Free for open source
  • 20
    Customizable
  • 18
    Helps reduce technical debt
  • 14
    Better coding
  • 13
    Best scala support
  • 11
    Faster Employee Onboarding
  • 10
    Duplication detector
  • 10
    Great UI
  • 9
    PHP integration
  • 6
    Python inspection
  • 5
    Tools for JVM analysis
  • 5
    Many integrations
  • 4
    Github Integration
  • 3
    Must-have for Java
  • 3
    Easy Travis integration
  • 3
    Items can be ignored in the UI
  • 3
    Asdasdas
  • 2
    Gitlab
  • 0
    Asdas
  • 13
    Code review
  • 11
    Good workflow
  • 10
    Cleaner repository story
  • 9
    Open source
  • 9
    Good integration with Jenkins
  • 5
    Unlimited repo support
  • 2
    Comparison dashboard

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Cons of Codacy
Cons of Gerrit Code Review
  • 6
    No support for private Git or Azure DevOps git
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    What is 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.

    What is 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.

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