We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and Coverity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"It's very stable."
"It has the lowest false positives."
"The interface of Coverity is quite good, and it is also easy to use."
"I like Coverity's capability to scan codes once we push it. We don't need more time to review our colleagues' codes. Its UI is pretty straightforward."
"We were very comfortable with the initial setup."
"The product has deeper scanning capabilities."
"Coverity is scalable."
"The app analysis is the most valuable feature as I know other solutions don't have that."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Reporting engine needs to be more robust."
"The solution could use more rules."
"It would be great if we could customize the rules to focus on critical issues."
"We use GitHub and Gitflow, and Coverity does not fit with Gitflow. I have to create a screen for our branches, and it's a pain for developers. It has been difficult to integrate Coverity with our system."
"Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."
"Right now, the Coverity executable is around 1.2GB to download. If they can reduce it to approximately 600 or 700MB, that would be great. If they decrease the executable, it will be much easier to work in an environment like Docker."
"The tool needs to improve its reporting."
"The quality of the code needs improvement."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 34 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while Coverity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. Coverity report.
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