We performed a comparison between GitLab and Klocwork 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."The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"GitLab is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its security."
"I like that it's easy to deploy our services over GitLab. The customer support is also good with a really active community. You have a lot of support that you can get online with your stack. That is probably one of the benefits of using GitLab. It's also really fast."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"It is scalable."
"On-the-fly analysis and incremental analysis are the best parts of Klocwork. Currently, we are using both of these features very effectively."
"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."
"Klocwork's most valuable feature is the static code analysis feature. It detects the potential problem earlier to allow the developer to receive feedback quickly and then address it before it becomes a problem."
"The tool helps the team to think beforehand about corner cases or potential bugs that might arise in real-time."
"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."
"The reporting helps us understand the trend of our results and whether we improve over time. We can see the history within Klocwork's server architecture and know that we're making things better. It creates a great story for our management. We can demonstrate value and how our software is developing over time."
"The most valuable feature is the Incremental analysis."
"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"The main problem is that since it only parses the code, the warnings or the problems that are given as a result of the report can sometimes require a lot of effort to analyze."
"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork. They have recently added Kotlin as a part of their project, but we would like to see more languages in Klocwork. That's the reason we are using Coverity as a backup for some of the other languages."
"I would like to see better codes between projects and a more user-friendly desktop in the next release."
"I hope that in each new release they add new features relating to the addition of checkers, improving their analysis engines etc."
"What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity."
"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."
"We'd like to see integration with Agile DevOps and Agile methodologies."
"The way to define the rules is too complex. The definition/rules for static analysis could be automated according to various SILs, so as to avoid confusion."
GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while Klocwork is ranked 16th in Application Security Tools with 20 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Klocwork is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Klocwork writes "Their technical team helps us get the most out of the solution, but we've faced some stability problems in our environment". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Klocwork is most compared with SonarQube, Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover and CodeSonar. See our GitLab vs. Klocwork report.
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