We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and Coverity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"It offers good performance."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is that there were not a whole lot of false positives, at least on the codebases that I looked at."
"The app analysis is the most valuable feature as I know other solutions don't have that."
"The security analysis features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution has helped to increase staff productivity and improved our work significantly by approximately 20 percent."
"We were very comfortable with the initial setup."
"It is a scalable solution."
"This solution is easy to use."
"The solution has improved our code quality and security very well."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier."
"When I put my code into Coverity for scanning, the code information of the product is in the system. The solution could be improved by providing a SBOM, a software bill of material."
"Some features are not performing well, like duplicate detection and switch case situations."
"Coverity could improve the ease of use. Sometimes things become difficult and you need to follow the guides from the website but the guides could be better."
"The solution is a bit complex to use in comparison to other products that have many plugins."
"Reporting engine needs to be more robust."
"The product should include more customization options. The analytics is not as deep as compared to SonarQube."
"Sometimes it's a bit hard to figure out how to use the product’s UI."
CAST Highlight is ranked 13th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 34 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while Coverity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode and Black Duck, whereas Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode. See our CAST Highlight vs. Coverity report.
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