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 solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"The most valuable feature of Coverity is that it shows examples of what is actually wrong with the code."
"The interface of Coverity is quite good, and it is also easy to use."
"Provides software security, and helps to find potential security bugs or defects."
"The most valuable feature of Coverity is the wrapper. We use the wrapper to build the C++ component, then we use the other code analysis to analyze the code to the build object, and then send back the result to the SonarQube server. Additionally, it is a powerful capabilities solution."
"Coverity is quite stable and we haven’t had any issues or any downtime."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that there were not a whole lot of false positives, at least on the codebases that I looked at."
"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"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."
"It would be great if we could customize the rules to focus on critical issues."
"The solution could use more rules."
"The product could be enhanced by providing video troubleshooting guides, making issue resolution more accessible. Troubleshooting without visual guides can be time-consuming."
"The tool needs to improve its reporting."
"Sometimes, vulnerabilities remain unidentified even after setting up the rules."
"We'd like it to be faster."
"The level of vulnerability that this solution covers could be improved compared to other open source tools."
"Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 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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