We performed a comparison between Coverity and Synopsys Code Dx 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 product is easy to use."
"Coverity is scalable."
"The product has deeper scanning capabilities."
"The features I find most valuable is that our entire company can publish the analysis results into our central space."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."
"Coverity is easy to set up and has a less lengthy process to find vulnerabilities."
"It provides reports about a lot of potential defects."
"The customers were looking for something around static security and dynamic security, and in all those areas, they were looking for an industry leader with a proven solution. Synopsys is a Gartner leader, so I position this particular technology for the technical pre-sales part of it."
"The product lacks sufficient customization options."
"The product could be enhanced by providing video troubleshooting guides, making issue resolution more accessible. Troubleshooting without visual guides can be time-consuming."
"I would like to see integration with popular IDEs, such as Eclipse."
"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."
"The level of vulnerability that this solution covers could be improved compared to other open source tools."
"The product should include more customization options. The analytics is not as deep as compared to SonarQube."
"Reporting engine needs to be more robust."
"They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier."
"The initial setup is a bit challenging because things are not easy. It needs a lot of technology adaptability plus the customer's environment-specific use cases."
Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 reviews while Synopsys Code Dx is ranked 31st in Application Security Testing (AST) with 1 review. Coverity is rated 7.8, while Synopsys Code Dx is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys Code Dx writes "Facilitates continuous assessment of applications, covering both static and dynamic security aspects". Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode, whereas Synopsys Code Dx is most compared with Veracode, Checkmarx One and SonarQube.
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