We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and SonarQube 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."Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"The initial setup is simple. It requires some security, but it's simple."
"If code coverage is a low number then that's of great value to me."
"We've configured it to run on each commit, providing feedback on our software quality. ]"
"The solution has a wide variety of features and an open-source community that you are able to learn Java, JavaScript, or any other programing language."
"It is very good at identifying technical debt."
"SonarQube is designed well making it easy to use, simple to identify issues and find solutions to problems."
"The software quality gate streamlines the product's quality."
"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."
"New plug-ins should be integrated into SonarCloud to give more flexibility to the product."
"It requires advanced heuristics to recognize more complex constructs that could be disregarded as issues."
"For improvement, this solution could be offered on Docker and the cloud and the support for this solution could be improved. Customizing rules could also be made simpler."
"I think the code security can be improved."
"SonarQube can improve by scanning the internal library which currently it does not do. We are looking for a solution for this."
"I would like to see improvements in defining the quality sets of rules and the quality to ensure code with low-performance does not end up in production."
"A little bit more emphasis on security and a bit more security scanning features would be nice."
"The software testing tool capability could improve. It does not always integrate well. You have to use a specific plugin and the plugin does not always go in Apple's applications."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 111 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. 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 SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, Sonatype Lifecycle and HCL AppScan, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and Snyk. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. SonarQube report.
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