We performed a comparison between GitLab and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional 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."This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"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."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"It's a great toolbox where the CI/CD pipeline is the fundamental component, but there are so many other features that you can pull from, which makes it a very powerful tool. My current client is using AWS, and they can, of course, use AWS CodePipeline, but GitLab is much more mature than that, and it also gives you the freedom to decide to go to another platform or have a multi-cloud strategy and things like that. That freedom for me is also very valuable."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"The feature that we have found most valuable is that it comes with pre-set configurations. They have a set of predefined options where you can pick one and start scanning. We also have the option of creating our own configurations, like how often do the applications need to be scanned."
"I am impressed with the tool's detailed analysis for penetration testing. AppScan can give only visibility, but it can't do the PT part. But the PortSwigger Burp Application can do both, and it gives much more visibility on the PT rating."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution has a great user interface."
"Enables automation of different tasks such as authorization testing."
"For pentesting scenarios, this is the number one tool. It can capture the request, and there are so many functions that are very good for that. For example, a black box satellite host."
"You can scan any number of applications and it updates its database."
"I have found the best features to be the performance and there are a lot of additional plugins available."
"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."
"The solution could be faster."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"The documentation is confusing."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"Reporting could be improved."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high."
"BurpSuite has some issues regarding authentication with OAT tokens that need to be improved."
"The technical support team's response time is mostly delayed and should be improved."
"There is not much automation in the tool."
"The solution doesn't offer very good scalability."
"The biggest improvement that I would like to see from PortSwigger that today many people see as an issue in their testing. There might be a feature which might be desired."
"Scanning needs to be improved in enterprise and professional versions."
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GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 9th in Application Security Tools with 55 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional writes "The solution is versatile and easy to deploy, but it needs to give more detailed security reports". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Digital.ai Application Security. See our GitLab vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional report.
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