We performed a comparison between Fortify Static Code Analyzer and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veracode, Checkmarx, OpenText and others in Static Code Analysis."It's helped us free up staff time."
"Fortify Static Code Analyzer tells us if there are any security leaks or not. If there are, then it's notifying us and does not allow us to pass the DevOps pipeline. If it is finds everything's perfect, as per our given guidelines, then it is allowing us to go ahead and start it, and we are able to deploy it."
"We write software, and therefore, the most valuable aspect for us is basically the code analysis part."
"The Software Security Center, which is often overlooked, stands out as the most effective feature."
"We've found the documentation to be very good."
"Automating the Jenkins plugins and the build title is a big plus."
"I like Fortify Software Security Center or Fortify SSC. This tool is installed on each developer's machine, but Fortify Software Security Center combines everything. We can meet there as security professionals and developers. The developers scan their code and publish the results there. We can then look at them from a security perspective and see whether they fixed the issues. We can agree on whether something is a false positive and make decisions."
"The reference provided for each issue is extremely helpful."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"GitLab integrates well with other platforms."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"The best thing is that as the developers work on separate tasks, all of the code goes there and the other team members don't have to wait on each other to finish."
"The pricing is a bit high."
"It can be tricky if you want to exclude some files from scanning. For instance, if you do not want to scan and push testing files to Fortify Software Security Center, that is tricky with some IDEs, such as IntelliJ. We found that there is an Exclude feature that is not working. We reported that to them for future fixing. It needs some work on the plugins to make them consistent across IDEs and make them easier."
"Fortify Static Code Analyzer has a bit of a learning curve, and I don't find it particularly helpful in narrowing down the vulnerabilities we should prioritize."
"Fortify's software security center needs a design refresh."
"The product shows false positives for Python applications."
"It comes with a hefty licensing fee."
"Not all languages are supported in Fortify."
"Their licensing is expensive."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"Even if I say I want some improvement, they will say it is already planned in the first quarter, second quarter, or third quarter. That said, most everything is quite improved already, and they're improving even further still."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
Fortify Static Code Analyzer is ranked 3rd in Static Code Analysis with 13 reviews while GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews. Fortify Static Code Analyzer is rated 8.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortify Static Code Analyzer writes "Seamless to integrate and identify vulnerabilities and frees up staff time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Fortify Static Code Analyzer is most compared with Black Duck, Snyk, Veracode, Sonatype Lifecycle and Mend.io, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Sonatype Lifecycle.
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