We performed a comparison between Coverity and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I encountered a bug with Coverity, and I opened a ticket. Support provided me with a workaround. So it's working at the moment, or at least it seems to be."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Jenkins."
"The app analysis is the most valuable feature as I know other solutions don't have that."
"One of the most valuable features is Contributing Events. That particular feature helps the developer understand the root cause of a defect. So you can locate the starting point of the defect and figure out exactly how it is being exploited."
"The interface of Coverity is quite good, and it is also easy to use."
"This solution is easy to use."
"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."
"The product has been beneficial in logging functionality, allowing me to categorize vulnerabilities based on severity. This aids in providing updated reports on subsequent scans."
"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."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"GitLab is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."
"Sometimes it's a bit hard to figure out how to use the product’s UI."
"Coverity could improve the ease of use. Sometimes things become difficult and you need to follow the guides from the website but the guides could be better."
"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 solution is a bit complex to use in comparison to other products that have many plugins."
"The product should include more customization options. The analytics is not as deep as compared to SonarQube."
"The product lacks sufficient customization options."
"Coverity is not stable."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."
"It's more related to the supporting layer of features, such as issue management and issue tracking. We tend to always use, for example, Jira next to it. That doesn't mean that GitLab should build something similar to Jira because that will always have its place, but they could grow a bit in those kinds of supporting features. I see some, for example, covering ITSM on a DevOps team level, and that's one of the things that I and my current client would find really helpful. It's understandably not going to be their main focus and their core, and whenever you are with a company that needs a bit more advanced features on that specific topic, you're probably still going to integrate with another tool like Jira Service Management, for example. However, some basic features on things like that could be really helpful."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
Coverity is ranked 4th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 33 reviews while GitLab is ranked 8th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 70 reviews. Coverity is rated 7.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Mend.io, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our Coverity vs. GitLab report.
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