We performed a comparison between Coverity and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Testing (AST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The solution has helped to increase staff productivity and improved our work significantly by approximately 20 percent."
"We were very comfortable with the initial setup."
"It has the lowest false positives."
"The solution has improved our code quality and security very well."
"The ability to scan code gives us details of existing and potential vulnerabilities. What really matters for us is to ensure that we are able to catch vulnerabilities ahead of time."
"Coverity is quite stable and we haven’t had any issues or any downtime."
"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"For us, Gitlab's most valuable feature is the integration with Cypress. We're using Cypress as an automation tool, so we're using GitLab as a tool for running in parallel."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"The solution is stable."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"There should be additional IDE support."
"Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."
"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."
"Its price can be improved. Price is always an issue with Synopsys."
"The tool needs to improve its reporting."
"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."
"Coverity takes a lot of time to dereference null pointers."
"The solution is a bit complex to use in comparison to other products that have many plugins."
"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."
"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."
"GitLab could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."
"It would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"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."
Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 reviews while GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Testing (AST) 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, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton. See our Coverity vs. GitLab report.
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