Inspecting PHP Code Quality with Scrutinizer

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We’ve gone through a decent number of tutorials about code quality, inspections, auto-build systems and so on here at SitePoint:

In this article, we’ll take a look at Scrutinizer CI – a continuous integration tool that’s quite expensive and closed to private projects, but very handy for public ones.

Scrutinizer vs/+ Travis

Scrutinizer is kind of like your online version of Jenkins and the tools suggested in the 4-part series mentioned in the introduction of this post. It supports PHP, Ruby, Python and to an extent JavaScript out of the box.

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I’m using it since january. Thanks to it, I’ve improved the way I’m coding a lot.Your article only cover the most obvious things, there are tons of other useful things.

As for the 19€ pricing, that’s because they recently changed the way they price the licenses. Before, you had a Solo license, costing 19€, where you had access to everything, but could only have 1 private repo. That’s the plan I’m currently subscribed to.

At first, I was kinda upset too by they way they manage complexity and conditions in the analysis. But in the end, I managed to respect these analysis, and I have better code. But I had to refactor a lot.

In fact, I’m getting 10, with a lot of strict coding standards in place. Code is clean, readable, commented, without any bugs.

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Scrutinizer is nice but far too expensive to worth considering for individuals. $50/month just for Code Smells, Best Practices, Bug Detection,Running Tests and Code Coverage, all of which isn’t that hard to have set/running in an IDE/locally.

https://insight.sensiolabs.com/ is free for opensource and $6/month for lite, so I see no reason to leave.

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