We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and Coverity 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 solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Coverity gives advisory and deviation features, which are some of the parts I liked."
"The most valuable feature is that there were not a whole lot of false positives, at least on the codebases that I looked at."
"Provides software security, and helps to find potential security bugs or defects."
"I like Coverity's capability to scan codes once we push it. We don't need more time to review our colleagues' codes. Its UI is pretty straightforward."
"The security analysis features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The interface of Coverity is quite good, and it is also easy to use."
"The product is easy to use."
"The product has been beneficial in logging functionality, allowing me to categorize vulnerabilities based on severity. This aids in providing updated reports on subsequent scans."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."
"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."
"We use GitHub and Gitflow, and Coverity does not fit with Gitflow. I have to create a screen for our branches, and it's a pain for developers. It has been difficult to integrate Coverity with our system."
"The solution could use more rules."
"Sometimes it's a bit hard to figure out how to use the product’s UI."
"They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier."
"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."
"The solution is a bit complex to use in comparison to other products that have many plugins."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 34 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while Coverity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. Coverity report.
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