We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and GitLab 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 CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"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."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"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."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"GitLab is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"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."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"For as long as I have used GitLab, I haven't encountered any major limitations. However, I think that perhaps the search functionality could be better."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while GitLab is ranked 6th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 70 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx One and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our CAST Highlight vs. GitLab report.
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