We performed a comparison between Fortify Software Security Center 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."You can easily download the tool's rule packs and update them."
"The reporting is very useful because you can always view an entire list of the issues that you have."
"This is a stable solution at the end of the day."
"I like GitLab's security and SAS tools."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"We have seen a couple of merge requests or pull requests raised in GitLab. I see the interface, the way it shows the difference between the two source codes, that it is easy for anyone to do the review and then accept the request; the pull request is the valuable feature."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"It scales well."
"We are having issues with false positives that need to be resolved."
"Fortify Software Security Center's setup is really painful."
"This solution is difficult to implement, and it should be made more comfortable for the end-users."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"There was a problem with the build environment when we were looking at developing iOS applications. iOS build require Mac machines and there are no Mac machines provided by GitLab in their cloud. So to build for mobile iOS application, we needed to use our own Mac machine within our own infrastructure. If GitLab were to provide a feature such that an iOS application could also be built through GitLab directly, that would be great."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
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Fortify Software Security Center is ranked 27th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 3 reviews while GitLab is ranked 8th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 70 reviews. Fortify Software Security Center is rated 7.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortify Software Security Center writes "A fair-priced solution that helps with application security testing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Fortify Software Security Center is most compared with Fortify on Demand, Tricentis Tosca, Checkmarx One and Fortify WebInspect, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our Fortify Software Security Center vs. GitLab report.
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