We performed a comparison between Coverity and w3af based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 reviews while w3af is ranked 41st in Application Security Tools. Coverity is rated 7.8, while w3af is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of w3af writes "It's buggy and seems to try to do too many things, but having this on a USB drive has been valuable". Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode, whereas w3af is most compared with Acunetix.
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