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Hound vs JaCoCo: What are the differences?
Developers describe Hound as "A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests". Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations. On the other hand, JaCoCo is detailed as "A code coverage library for Java". It is a free code coverage library for Java, which has been created based on the lessons learned from using and integration existing libraries for many years.
Hound and JaCoCo belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
Hound is an open source tool with 1.73K GitHub stars and 395 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.
thoughtbot, Punchh, and Verba are some of the popular companies that use Hound, whereas JaCoCo is used by Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Microstrategy, and movix. Hound has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to JaCoCo, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2