We performed a comparison between GitLab and Klocwork based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"GitLab is very well-organized and easy to use. Also, it offers most features that customers need."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"The scalability is good."
"I have found the most valuable feature is security control. I also like the branching and cloning software."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"The tool helps the team to think beforehand about corner cases or potential bugs that might arise in real-time."
"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."
"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."
"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."
"It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration."
"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."
"The ability to create custom checkers is a plus."
"I like not having to dig through false positives. Chasing down a false positive can take anywhere from five minutes for a small easy one, then something that is complicated and goes through a whole bunch of different class cases, and it can take up to 45 minutes to an hour to find out if it is a false positive or not."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"The solution could be faster."
"The documentation is confusing."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
"I would like to see better codes between projects and a more user-friendly desktop in the next release."
"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."
"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."
"We bought Klocwork, but it was limited to one little program, but the program is now sort of failing. So, we have a license for usage on a program that is sort of failing, and we really can't use the license on anything else."
"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."
"The main problem is that since it only parses the code, the warnings or the problems that are given as a result of the report can sometimes require a lot of effort to analyze."
"This solution could be improved if they offered support of more languages including Ada and Golang. They currently only support seven languages."
"The way to define the rules is too complex. The definition/rules for static analysis could be automated according to various SILs, so as to avoid confusion."
GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while Klocwork is ranked 18th in Application Security Tools with 20 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Klocwork is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Klocwork writes "Their technical team helps us get the most out of the solution, but we've faced some stability problems in our environment". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas Klocwork is most compared with SonarQube, Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover and CodeSonar. See our GitLab vs. Klocwork report.
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