We performed a comparison between Coverity and Synopsys API Security Testing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."It has the lowest false positives."
"This solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Coverity is that it shows examples of what is actually wrong with the code."
"Provides software security, and helps to find potential security bugs or defects."
"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 app analysis is the most valuable feature as I know other solutions don't have that."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Jenkins."
"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Synopsys API Security Testing are the metrics, results, and threat vectors that it shares."
"The setup takes very long."
"The solution could use more rules."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with popular IDEs, such as Eclipse."
"We'd like it to be faster."
"The solution is a bit complex to use in comparison to other products that have many plugins."
"Some features are not performing well, like duplicate detection and switch case situations."
"The product could be enhanced by providing video troubleshooting guides, making issue resolution more accessible. Troubleshooting without visual guides can be time-consuming."
"The solution required us to use our team and we spoke to Synopsys API Security Testing's support to do the implementation. We use two people from our team for the implementation. and one person for maintenance."
Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 reviews while Synopsys API Security Testing is ranked 29th in Application Security Testing (AST). Coverity is rated 7.8, while Synopsys API Security Testing is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys API Security Testing writes "Useful threat vectors, beneficial results, but implementation needed support". Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode, whereas Synopsys API Security Testing is most compared with Seeker, Fortify WebInspect, OWASP Zap and Acunetix.
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