We performed a comparison between Klocwork and PyCharm based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Static Code Analysis solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."
"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."
"Technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is finding defects while you're doing the coding. For example, if you have an IDE plug-in of Klocwork on Visual Studio or Eclipse, you can find the faults; similar to using spell check on Word, you can find out defects during the development phase, which means that you don't have to wait till the development is over to find the flaws and address the deficiencies. I also find language support in Klocwork good because it used to support only C, C++, C#, and Java, but now, it also supports Java scripts and Python."
"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."
"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."
"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."
"The ability to create custom checkers is a plus."
"The recent AI-powered code completion is pretty cool."
"The solution has a nice environment and extensions that make it easy to develop software."
"The best feature of PyCharm is that it gives you hints whenever it detects any issues while you are coding. This is important because it helps us code faster and without any errors."
"The solution has a great debugging feature."
"It is an excellent, fully integrated IDE with smart code analysis capability and a built-in debugger. It is a fantastic tool."
"The product's IDE feature is quite user-friendly."
"Good syntax highlighting and very it's very customizable."
"The integrated code structure makes coding more organized and manageable compared to using Python alone."
"What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity."
"I believe it should support more languages, such as Python and JavaScript."
"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."
"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."
"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."
"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."
"I hope that in each new release they add new features relating to the addition of checkers, improving their analysis engines etc."
"Under NIST cybersecurity standards, we must address vulnerabilities within a specified time after discovering them. When we try to propagate those updates and fixes through the system, it would be nice if the clients could reconnect to the existing server or have the server dynamically updated in some way. I know that isn't easy, but maybe processes could be enhanced to make that more streamlined from a DevOps perspective."
"The solution does not support some features of OpenCV even though it is part of a PyCharm package."
"The user interface and overall user experience could be more intuitive to make it easier for users to navigate and utilize the software effectively."
"Notebooks in PyCharm is not as intuitive as it could be."
"The navigation can be better."
"They should improve the product's interactiveness."
"PyCharm's use of system resources can get pretty heavy. Loading, in particular, takes longer than I would like and I think they should optimize it so that it's a bit lighter on the system."
"There is room for improvement in memory usage. It uses too much memory. It can get a bit heavy, especially when you have too many open files and the system becomes very slow."
"There should be support for the RUST plugin in the Community edition for debugging."
Klocwork is ranked 4th in Static Code Analysis with 20 reviews while PyCharm is ranked 6th in Static Code Analysis with 8 reviews. Klocwork is rated 8.2, while PyCharm is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PyCharm writes "Convenient to use and surely increases the effectiveness of software development". Klocwork is most compared with SonarQube, Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover, CodeSonar and Checkmarx One, whereas PyCharm is most compared with . See our Klocwork vs. PyCharm report.
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