Klocwork vs Parasoft SOAtest comparison

"The reporting helps us understand the trend of our results and whether we improve over time. We can see the history within Klocwork's server architecture and know that we're making things better. It creates a great story for our management. We can demonstrate value and how our software is developing over time."

"The most valuable feature is the Incremental analysis."

"The tool helps the team to think beforehand about corner cases or potential bugs that might arise in real-time."

"On-the-fly analysis and incremental analysis are the best parts of Klocwork. Currently, we are using both of these features very effectively."

"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."

"It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration."

"Technical support is quite good."

"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."

"Technical support is helpful."

"Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports."

"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."

"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."

"Good write and read files which save execution inputs and outputs and can be stored locally."

"We can automate our scenarios in a data driven format, which shows there is no rework on scripts. We only need to update the test data and run for a number of scenarios."

"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."

"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork. They have recently added Kotlin as a part of their project, but we would like to see more languages in Klocwork. That's the reason we are using Coverity as a backup for some of the other languages."

"I would like to see better codes between projects and a more user-friendly desktop in the next release."

"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."

"What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity."

"This solution could be improved if they offered support of more languages including Ada and Golang. They currently only support seven languages."

"We'd like to see integration with Agile DevOps and Agile methodologies."

"I believe it should support more languages, such as Python and JavaScript."

"Reports could be customized and more descriptive according to the user's or company's requirements."

"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."

"UI testing should be more in-depth."

"The performance could be a bit better."

"From an automation point of view, it should have better clarity and be more user friendly."

"Reporting facilities can be better."

"Parasoft SOAtest has an internal refresh function where you can refresh the software to show the changes you’ve made in your projects. Unfortunately this function does not work properly, because it often does not show the changes after you’ve hit te refresh button a few times."

"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."

"The limitation that we have is that Klocwork is licensed to certain programs, and if you want to license them to other programs, you have to pay more money."

"Licensing fees are paid annually, but they also have a perpetual license."

"The pricing for Klocwork is very competitive if you compare it from apple to apple. It has competitive pricing regarding the licensing model and the per-license cost. Klocwork isn't a high-end investment for anyone deploying it; even SMBs can afford it. The Klocwork cost per user would depend on the license type, so I'm unable to mention a ballpark figure because it would depend on the type of installation and how the deployment will be, and the nodes to give an accurate calculation or figure. The total price depends on the package, so my company could never publish pricing for Klocwork on the website. My team first collects information from potential clients on the deployment scenario, project environment, etc., before suggesting a package for Klocwork. My rating for Klocwork in terms of pricing is a five because of its flexible license models. There's a license model for every type of organization, whether small, midsize, or enterprise, so it's a five out of five for me."

"When it comes to licensing, the solution has two packages, one for a fixed and the other for a floating server, with the former being more cost effective than the latter."

"This solution offers competitive pricing."

"There are other solutions on the market such as Microsoft Visual Studio. They have been adding more static code analysis features that come for free. It is getting better all the time. That is one of the possibilities is that we've been considering that we may stop using the Klocwork because it doesn't give us any added value."

"Klocwork should not to be quite so heavy handed on the licensing for very specific programs."

"Klocwork is still tight on their licensing. If Klocwork would loosen up on the licensing, and where the license could be used, and how many different programs could be run on it, then we have several development programs that I would love to be able to use it for going forward."

"They do have a confusing licensing structure."

"The license price is a little expensive, but it provides a better outcome in terms of the end-to-end automation process."

"From what I understand, Parasoft SOAtest isn't the cheapest option. But it has a lot to offer."

"The cost of Parasoft seems to have gotten higher with a projection that wasn't really stipulated for our company. They've done a tremendous job at negotiating those deals."

"We are completed satisfied with Parasoft SOAtest. The ROI is more than 95%."

"I think it would be a great step to decrease the price of the licenses."

"The price is around $5,000 USD."

"It is an expensive product, so think carefully about whether it fits your purposes and is the right tool for you."