We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It offers good performance."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"The stability is good."
"I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"Reporting could be improved."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"The documentation is confusing."
CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while GitLab is ranked 6th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 70 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Black Duck and Coverity, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our CAST Highlight vs. GitLab report.
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