We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Polyspace Code Prover 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."The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"This is a stable solution."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"I like the recording feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"It provides a better integration for our ecosystem."
"When we work on safety modules, it is mandatory to fulfill ISO 26262 compliance. Using Prover helps fulfill the standard on top of many other quality checks, like division by zero, data type casts, and null pointer dereferences."
"Polyspace Code Prover is a very user-friendly tool."
"Polyspace Code Prover has made me realize it differs from other static code analysis tools because it runs the code. So it's quite distinct in that aspect."
"The product detects memory corruptions."
"The outputs are very reliable."
"It has crashed at times."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"I would love to see more containers. Many of the tools are great, they require an amount of configuration, setup and infrastructure. If most the applications were in a container, I think everything would be a little bit faster, because all our clients are now using containers."
"We would like to see a check in the specific vulnerabilities in mobile applications or rooted devices, such as jailbreaking devices."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"We have experienced challenges when trying to integrate this solution with other products. When you compare it with the other SecOps products, the quality of the output is too low. It is not a new-age product. It is very outdated."
"I'd like the data to be taken from any format."
"Automation could be a challenge."
"One of the main disadvantages is the time it takes to initiate the first run."
"The tool has some stability issues."
"Using Code Prover on large applications crashes sometimes."
HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Polyspace Code Prover is ranked 23rd in Application Security Tools with 5 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Polyspace Code Prover is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polyspace Code Prover writes "A stable solution for developing software components". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Polyspace Code Prover is most compared with SonarQube, Coverity, Klocwork, CodeSonar and Parasoft SOAtest. See our HCL AppScan vs. Polyspace Code Prover report.
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