We performed a comparison between Coverity and Synopsys API Security Testing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."The solution has helped to increase staff productivity and improved our work significantly by approximately 20 percent."
"The most valuable feature is that there were not a whole lot of false positives, at least on the codebases that I looked at."
"I encountered a bug with Coverity, and I opened a ticket. Support provided me with a workaround. So it's working at the moment, or at least it seems to be."
"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 solution effectively identifies bugs in code."
"The features I find most valuable is that our entire company can publish the analysis results into our central space."
"The product is easy to use."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Synopsys API Security Testing are the metrics, results, and threat vectors that it shares."
"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."
"There should be additional IDE support."
"Reporting engine needs to be more robust."
"SCM integration is very poor in Coverity."
"The quality of the code needs improvement."
"The level of vulnerability that this solution covers could be improved compared to other open source tools."
"The solution could use more rules."
"The tool needs to improve its reporting."
"The solution required us to use our team and we spoke to Synopsys API Security Testing's support to do the implementation. We use two people from our team for the implementation. and one person for maintenance."
Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 reviews while Synopsys API Security Testing is ranked 29th in Application Security Testing (AST). Coverity is rated 7.8, while Synopsys API Security Testing is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys API Security Testing writes "Useful threat vectors, beneficial results, but implementation needed support". Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode, whereas Synopsys API Security Testing is most compared with Seeker, Fortify WebInspect, OWASP Zap and Acunetix.
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