2020-04-23T10:13:00Z

What needs improvement with CAST Highlight?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Antonio Cavallari - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-11-29T13:21:15Z
Nov 29, 2023

The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.

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Real User
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2022-10-20T16:04:53Z
Oct 20, 2022

We get some code insights from CAST. We get insights as to if this or that function has way too many comments or things like that. We would like to backtrace, and understand how dependent that is as per the application. For example, when you are writing code in C Sharp versus writing code in C++, obviously, C++ has more complexities within that. What CAST does is CAST aggregates for different languages, and if they could provide us inputs for each of these languages separately, then that'd be great. When they classify code between their own code and third-party code, they classify it based on the number of files, and not really the number of lines. I'm not sure how extensive of a change this is on their end; however, it would be nice if they could tell us the number of lines of code that are not theirs. There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset. We have come across bugs occasionally. Technical support could be better.

VL
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2022-05-17T15:18:49Z
May 17, 2022

CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves.

VG
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-05-08T07:11:06Z
May 8, 2021

Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. Both are licensed separately. As per CAST, Highlight is for RAPID prototyping and AIP is for in depth detailed analysis. But then there are areas which Highlights covers (Cloud Adoption) which AIP does not. Our experience in using AIP is that it also does not look at entire tech stack and does not provide the list of all technologies present in your application and then flag what is supported and what is not so that customer has clear view. Highlight probably does that. They need to simplify it for customers. I would expect CAST Highlight to have lighter version of the Health dashboard and the Engineering dashboards . These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time.

Kangkan Goswami - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2020-04-23T10:13:00Z
Apr 23, 2020

The level of abstraction is a little bit high compared to other solutions, such as Veracode. The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user. Reducing this type of technical debt would help to manage policy such that it was easier to create and submit for approval. Essentially, it does not provide enough help for the developers.

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