We performed a comparison between GitLab and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about PortSwigger, GitLab, OWASP and others in Fuzz Testing Tools."It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"The stability is good."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"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 most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"GitLab could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
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GitLab is ranked 2nd in Fuzz Testing Tools with 70 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Synopsys Defensics 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 Synopsys Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Fortify on Demand and Invicti.
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