We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Polyspace Code Prover 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."The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"IBM AppScan has made our work easy, as we can do four to five scans of websites at a time, which saves time when it comes to vulnerability."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"Polyspace Code Prover has made me realize it differs from other static code analysis tools because it runs the code. So it's quite distinct in that aspect."
"The outputs are very reliable."
"When we work on safety modules, it is mandatory to fulfill ISO 26262 compliance. Using Prover helps fulfill the standard on top of many other quality checks, like division by zero, data type casts, and null pointer dereferences."
"The product detects memory corruptions."
"Polyspace Code Prover is a very user-friendly tool."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"They have to improve support."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"If HCL AppScan is able to alert the clients over email once the scan is complete, it would be great. Right now, HCL AppScan doesn't let me know if the scanning part is finished or not, because of which I have to come back and check mostly."
"The penetration testing feature should be included."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"Using Code Prover on large applications crashes sometimes."
"One of the main disadvantages is the time it takes to initiate the first run."
"Automation could be a challenge."
"The tool has some stability issues."
"I'd like the data to be taken from any format."
HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 40 reviews while Polyspace Code Prover is ranked 23rd in Application Security Tools with 5 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Polyspace Code Prover is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polyspace Code Prover writes "A stable solution for developing software components". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Checkmarx One, whereas Polyspace Code Prover is most compared with SonarQube, Coverity, Klocwork, CodeSonar and Parasoft SOAtest. See our HCL AppScan vs. Polyspace Code Prover report.
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