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Dependabot vs FOSSA: What are the differences?
Developers describe Dependabot as "Automated dependency updates for Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Elixir, Java, PHP and Rust". Dependabot helps you keep your dependencies up to date. Every day, it checks your dependency files for outdated requirements and opens individual PRs for any it finds. You review, merge, and get to work on the latest, most secure releases. On the other hand, FOSSA is detailed as "Continuously scan and comply with open source licenses across your deep dependencies". Continuously scan and comply with open source licenses across your deep dependencies.
Dependabot and FOSSA belong to "Dependency Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
FOSSA is an open source tool with 678 GitHub stars and 58 GitHub forks. Here's a link to FOSSA's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Dependabot
- Free for github projects1
Pros of FOSSA
- Easy to integrate1
- Fewer false positives1
- Native to CI1
- Supports full text license scanning1