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Hound vs PVS-Studio: What are the differences?

Hound: Hound helps Engineering teams save time on code reviews. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests using tools like RuboCop, ESLint, Stylelint, etc; PVS-Studio: Static Code Analysis for C, C++, C# and Java. It is a tool used to detect bugs in the source code of programs written in C, C++, C# and Java It performs static code analysis and generates a report that helps a programmer find and fix bugs..

Hound and PVS-Studio belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Hound are:

  • Open source
  • Free for public repos
  • Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests

On the other hand, PVS-Studio provides the following key features:

  • Simple and seamless integration with Visual Studio 2010-2019
  • Automatic analysis of individual files after their recompilation
  • Automatic check for updates (inside IDEs and when running overnight builds)

Hound is an open source tool with 1.77K GitHub stars and 399 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Comments on style so I don't have to
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    What is Hound?

    Automated code review for GitHub pull requests. It comments on code quality and style issues, allowing you and your team to better review and maintain a clean codebase.

    What is PVS-Studio?

    It is a tool used to detect bugs in the source code of programs written in C, C++, C# and Java. It performs static code analysis and generates a report that helps a programmer find and fix bugs.

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