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Hound vs Scrutinizer: What are the differences?
What is Hound? 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.
What is Scrutinizer? Continuous inspection platform - improve code quality and find bugs before they hit production. Scrutinizer is a continuous inspection platform helping you to create better software.
Hound and Scrutinizer can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations
On the other hand, Scrutinizer provides the following key features:
- Continuously measure and track your code quality
- Project quality broken down
- Know your problem areas
"Comments on style so I don't have to" is the primary reason why developers consider Hound over the competitors, whereas "Github integration / sync" was stated as the key factor in picking Scrutinizer.
Hound is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 393 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Scrutinizer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 17 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Hound, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2
Pros of Scrutinizer
- Github integration / sync7
- Bitbucket integration / sync4
- Gitlab integration / sync2
- Private Git repo sync2
- Python inspection1
- Easy setup1
- Code review features1
- Coverage Report changes1
- Free for open source1
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Cons of Hound
Cons of Scrutinizer
- Pricing1
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