We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and Coverity 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."The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"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."
"It offers good performance."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"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 feature is the integration with Jenkins."
"The most valuable feature of Coverity is that it shows examples of what is actually wrong with the code."
"The product is easy to use."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Coverity is scalable."
"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."
"The reporting feature is up to the mark."
"This solution is easy to use."
"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."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"When I put my code into Coverity for scanning, the code information of the product is in the system. The solution could be improved by providing a SBOM, a software bill of material."
"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."
"Coverity takes a lot of time to dereference null pointers."
"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."
"The setup takes very long."
"Sometimes it's a bit hard to figure out how to use the product’s UI."
"The tool needs to improve its reporting."
"Coverity is not stable."
CAST Highlight is ranked 13th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 34 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while Coverity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode and Black Duck, whereas Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode. See our CAST Highlight vs. Coverity report.
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