Coverity and GitHub Code Scanning are competitors in the code quality analysis category. GitHub Code Scanning holds an upper hand due to its seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines, which users favor for complex project setups.
Features: Coverity offers comprehensive code analysis, static analysis capabilities, and detailed reporting features. GitHub Code Scanning provides strong CI/CD integration, seamless usability within GitHub, and ease of integration with existing projects.
Room for Improvement: Coverity could enhance integration with modern CI/CD platforms, streamline its complex deployment process, and update its integration capabilities. GitHub Code Scanning could improve the depth of analysis, offer more extensive customer support, and bolster its analytic strength further.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Coverity deployment is complex, but customer service is highly rated. GitHub Code Scanning provides a smoother deployment process within GitHub projects and a more user-friendly environment despite less extensive customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Coverity pricing is high but justified by in-depth analysis and effective support, offering solid ROI. GitHub Code Scanning is more cost-effective with moderate long-term ROI due to seamless integration with GitHub workflows, attracting budget-conscious users despite Coverity's higher initial costs.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Coverity | 6.3% |
| GitHub Code Scanning | 1.5% |
| Other | 92.2% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 8 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 31 |
Coverity gives you the speed, ease of use, accuracy, industry standards compliance, and scalability that you need to develop high-quality, secure applications. Coverity identifies critical software quality defects and security vulnerabilities in code as it’s written, early in the development process, when it’s least costly and easiest to fix. With the Code Sight integrated development environment (IDE) plugin, developers get accurate analysis in seconds in their IDE as they code. Precise actionable remediation advice and context-specific eLearning help your developers understand how to fix their prioritized issues quickly, without having to become security experts.
Coverity seamlessly integrates automated security testing into your CI/CD pipelines and supports your existing development tools and workflows. Choose where and how to do your development: on-premises or in the cloud with the Polaris Software Integrity Platform (SaaS), a highly scalable, cloud-based application security platform. Coverity supports more than 20 languages and 200 frameworks and templates.
Code scanning is a feature that you use to analyze the code in a GitHub repository to find security vulnerabilities and coding errors. Any problems identified by the analysis are shown in GitHub.
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