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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.
To learn more, read our detailed CAST Highlight vs. Coverity Report (Updated: September 2022).
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard.""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.""The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.""It offers good performance.""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."

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"Coverity gives advisory and deviation features, which are some of the parts I liked.""This solution is easy to use.""The most valuable feature of Coverity is its software security feature called the Checker. If you share some vulnerability or weakness then the software can find any potential security bug or defect. The code integration tool enables some secure coding standards and implements some Checkers for Live Duo. So we can enable secure coding and Azure in this tool. So in our software, we can make sure our software combines some industry supervised data.""The features I find most valuable is that our entire company can publish the analysis results into our central space.""Coverity is scalable.""The most valuable feature of Coverity is that it shows examples of what is actually wrong with the code.""It's very stable.""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."

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Cons
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.""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 reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."

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"Sometimes it's a bit hard to figure out how to use the product’s UI.""Coverity is far from perfection, and I'm not 100 percent sure it's helping me find what I need to find in my role. We need exactly what we are looking for, i.e. security errors and vulnerabilities. It doesn't seem to be reporting while we are changing our code.""Coverity takes a lot of time to dereference null pointers.""We'd like it to be faster.""The quality of the code needs improvement.""They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier.""It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines.""The solution could use more rules."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions."
  • "It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it."
  • "Basic support is included with the standard licensing feed but it can be upgraded for an additional cost."
  • "CAST Highlight is an expensive solution."
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  • "Coverity is quite expensive."
  • "The licensing fees are based on the number of lines of code."
  • "The price is competitive with other solutions."
  • "It is expensive."
  • "Coverity is very expensive."
  • "This is a pretty expensive solution. The overall value of the solution could be improved if the price was reduced. Licensing is done on an annual basis."
  • "The pricing is very reasonable compared to other platforms. It is based on a three year license."
  • "The pricing is on the expensive side, and we are paying for a couple of items."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.
    Top Answer:CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten.
    Top Answer:The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.
    Top Answer:We researched Coverity, but in the end, we chose SonarQube. SonarQube is a tool for reviewing code quality and security. It helps to guide our development teams during code reviews by providing… more »
    Top Answer:The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.
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    5
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    8.0
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    Also Known As
    Synopsys Static Analysis
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    Overview

    CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.

    CAST is the software intelligence category leader. CAST technology can see inside custom applications with MRI-like precision, automatically generating intelligence about their inner workings - composition, architecture, transaction flows, cloud readiness, structural flaws, legal and security risks. It’s becoming essential for faster modernization for cloud, raising the speed and efficiency of Software Engineering, better open source risk control, and accurate technical due diligence. CAST operates globally with offices in North America, Europe, India, China. Visit www.castsoftware.com.

    Coverity gives you the speed, ease of use, accuracy, industry standards compliance, and scalability that you need to develop high-quality, secure applications. Coverity identifies critical software quality defects and security vulnerabilities in code as it’s written, early in the development process, when it’s least costly and easiest to fix. With the Code Sight integrated development environment (IDE) plugin, developers get accurate analysis in seconds in their IDE as they code. Precise actionable remediation advice and context-specific eLearning help your developers understand how to fix their prioritized issues quickly, without having to become security experts. 

    Coverity seamlessly integrates automated security testing into your CI/CD pipelines and supports your existing development tools and workflows. Choose where and how to do your development: on-premises or in the cloud with the Polaris Software Integrity Platform (SaaS), a highly scalable, cloud-based application security platform. Coverity supports 22 languages and over 70 frameworks and templates.

    Sample Customers
    Wells Fargo, Bank of NY Mellon, Northern Trust, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, BMW, AT&T, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, John Hancock, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Volkswagen, Boston Consulting Group, London Stock Exchange, Telefonica, Saur France, Total Energies France, SNCF
    MStar Semiconductor, Alcatel-Lucent
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Insurance Company10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company36%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Retailer9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company27%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Government5%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
    Buyer's Guide
    CAST Highlight vs. Coverity
    September 2022
    Find out what your peers are saying about CAST Highlight vs. Coverity and other solutions. Updated: September 2022.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 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, Checkmarx, Veracode and GitLab, whereas Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx and Veracode. See our CAST Highlight vs. Coverity report.

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