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Hound vs Sourcetrail: 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 Sourcetrail? Get productive on unfamiliar source code. Sourcetrail is a cross-platform source explorer for C/C++ and Java. It helps software engineers explore and navigate unknown source code quickly and thoroughly by combining an interactive graph visualization, a concise code view and a powerful search algorithm, all built into an easy-to-use cross-platform developer tool.

Hound and Sourcetrail 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, Sourcetrail provides the following key features:

  • Index your Source Code - Sourcetrail's in-depth static analysis finds all definitions and references within your source files. You can choose from several methods for project setup.
  • Find any Symbol - Use Sourcetrail's search field to quickly find any symbol within the whole codebase. The fuzzy keyword matching gives you the best matches with just a few keystrokes
  • Navigate Visually - The graph visualization provides a quick overview of any class, method, field, etc., and all its relations. The graph is fully interactive. Use it to move through the codebase by focusing on other nodes and edges.

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.

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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 Sourcetrail?

    Sourcetrail is a cross-platform source explorer for C/C++ and Java. It helps software engineers explore and navigate unknown source code quickly and thoroughly by combining an interactive graph visualization, a concise code view and a powerful search algorithm, all built into an easy-to-use cross-platform developer tool.

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