We performed a comparison between Coverity and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Testing (AST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution is easy to use."
"The product has deeper scanning capabilities."
"The solution has helped to increase staff productivity and improved our work significantly by approximately 20 percent."
"It has the lowest false positives."
"Coverity is quite stable and we haven’t had any issues or any downtime."
"It's very stable."
"The ability to scan code gives us details of existing and potential vulnerabilities. What really matters for us is to ensure that we are able to catch vulnerabilities ahead of time."
"The product is easy to use."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"The quality of the code needs improvement."
"The product could be enhanced by providing video troubleshooting guides, making issue resolution more accessible. Troubleshooting without visual guides can be time-consuming."
"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."
"The setup takes very long."
"Its price can be improved. Price is always an issue with Synopsys."
"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."
"Coverity is far from perfection, and I'm not 100 percent sure it's helping me find what I need to find in my role. We need exactly what we are looking for, i.e. security errors and vulnerabilities. It doesn't seem to be reporting while we are changing our code."
"The product should include more customization options. The analytics is not as deep as compared to SonarQube."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"The documentation is confusing."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 reviews while GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 70 reviews. Coverity is rated 7.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Mend.io, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton. See our Coverity vs. GitLab report.
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