We performed a comparison between Fortify on Demand and Parasoft SOAtest 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."What stands out to me is the user-friendliness of each feature."
"The most valuable features of Micro Focus Fortify on Demand have been SAT analysis and application security."
"The vulnerability detection and scanning are awesome features."
"The most valuable features are the server, scanning, and it has helped identify issues with the security analysis."
"It is a very easy tool for developers to use in parallel while they're doing the coding. It does auto scanning as we are progressing with the CI/CD pipeline. It has got very simple and efficient API support."
"t's a cloud-based solution, so there was no installation involved."
"Fortify on Demand is easy to use and the reporting is good."
"I don’t know of any other On-Demand enterprise solution like this one where we can load the details and within a few days, receive the results of intrusion attacks, and work with HP Security Experts when needed for clarification"
"We do a lot of web services testing and REST services testing. That is the focus of this product."
"Every imaginable source in the entire world of information technology can be accessed and used."
"Generating new messages, based on the existing .EDN and .XML messages, is a crucial part or the testing project that I’m currently in."
"They have a feature where they can record traffic and create tests on the report traffic."
"Parasoft SOAtest has improved the quality of our automated web services, which can be easily implemented through service chaining and service virtualization."
"The testing time is shortened because we generate test data automatically with SOAtest."
"If you want something that’s not provided out of the box, then you can write it yourself and integrate it with SOAtest."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The Visual Studio plugin seems to hang when a scan is run on big projects. I would expect some improvements there."
"I would like to see improvement in CI integration and integration with GitLab or Jenkins. It needs to be more simple."
"The thing that could be improved is reducing the cost of usage and including some of the most pricey features, such as dynamic analysis and that sort of functionality, which makes the difference between different types of tools."
"Micro Focus Fortify on Demand can improve by having more graphs. For example, to show the improvement of the level of security."
"Reporting could be improved."
"Sometimes when we run a full scan, we have a bunch of issues in the code. We should not have any issues."
"Takes up a lot of resources which can slow things down."
"Micro Focus Fortify on Demand could improve the reports. They could benefit from being more user-friendly and intuitive."
"Reporting facilities can be better."
"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."
"The product is very slow to start up, and that is a bit of a problem, actually."
"Enabling/disabling an optional element of an XML request is only possible if a data source (e.g., Excel sheet) is connected to the test. Otherwise, the option is not available at all in the drop-down menu."
"From an automation point of view, it should have better clarity and be more user friendly."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"During the process of working with SOAtest and building test cases, the .TST files will grow. A negative side effect is that saving your changes takes more time."
"The summary reports could be improved."
Fortify on Demand is ranked 9th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 55 reviews while Parasoft SOAtest is ranked 28th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 30 reviews. Fortify on Demand is rated 8.0, while Parasoft SOAtest is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortify on Demand writes "Provides good depth of scanning but is unfortunately not fully integrated with CIT processes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft SOAtest writes "Reliable with a good interface but uses too much memory". Fortify on Demand is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx, Veracode, Coverity and Fortify WebInspect, whereas Parasoft SOAtest is most compared with Postman, SonarQube, Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover and Veracode. See our Fortify on Demand vs. Parasoft SOAtest report.
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