heygrc and Sourcery

Different jobs, same pull request.

Sourcery suggests refactors and improvements on a pull request. heygrc reads the change for the compliance control it touches. A change can be a sensible simplification and still weaken how you keep dependencies patched.

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Sourcery

Sourcery is an automated code reviewer that suggests refactors and improvements on pull requests.

heygrc

heygrc reviews each pull request against the compliance frameworks your company must meet (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and more) and cites the specific control a change touches. It is built for compliance, not code quality.

Where they do not overlap

A simplification that turns off dependency updates.

This change disables automatic dependency updates. Turning updates off makes the repo quieter.

renovate.json+1 −1

{-  "automerge": true,+  "enabled": false,  "packageRules": []}

heygrcISO 27001 A.8.8

Turning updates off stops security patches from landing automatically, which weakens management of technical vulnerabilities under ISO 27001 A.8.8. heygrc is built to read a change like this against your frameworks and cite the control it touches.

Use them together

Keep Sourcery. Add the compliance layer.

This is not a question of which tool wins. Sourcery catches the bugs and quality problems heygrc never looks for, and heygrc catches the compliance issues a code review is not built to see. Running both means a pull request is checked for whether the code is good and for whether the change is compliant, two different kinds of risk, on the same diff.

heygrc does not replace your code review, and it does not certify you. It reviews changes against your frameworks and cites the control, so the compliance question is answered where the change is made. heygrc is in early access.

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Questions

heygrc and Sourcery, common questions.

Is heygrc an alternative to Sourcery?

Not exactly. Sourcery reviews your code; heygrc reviews each change for compliance against the frameworks your company must meet (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and more) and cites the specific control it touches. They answer different questions about the same pull request, so heygrc is designed to run alongside it, not replace it.

Can I use heygrc and Sourcery together?

Yes. They look at different kinds of risk on the same diff: Sourcery on the code, heygrc on the compliance control a change touches. heygrc does not replace your code review.

What does heygrc check on a pull request?

heygrc reviews each pull request against the frameworks your company selected and cites the specific control a change touches, so the compliance question is answered in code review. heygrc does not certify you and is in early access.