Coverity Static and GitHub Code Scanning are products in the static analysis market, with GitHub having an edge due to its seamless integration and community support.
Features: Coverity Static offers comprehensive vulnerability detection, detailed code analysis capabilities, and customizable triage options. GitHub Code Scanning provides seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines, automates scanning within GitHub environments, and offers strong code review automation features.
Room for Improvement: Coverity Static can improve by reducing setup complexity, enhancing community support, and minimizing false positives. GitHub Code Scanning could benefit from deeper code analysis capabilities, more comprehensive vulnerability detection, and enhanced configuration options for non-GitHub environments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Coverity Static requires extensive setup and technical expertise, with formal support channels favored by enterprises. GitHub Code Scanning offers streamlined deployment through GitHub integration and benefits from active community-driven support.
Pricing and ROI: Coverity Static has higher upfront costs with potential ROI through in-depth analysis, while GitHub Code Scanning has more accessible pricing, especially for GitHub users, leading to faster ROI due to integrated workflows and lower entry barriers.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Coverity Static | 4.2% |
| GitHub Code Scanning | 1.6% |
| Other | 94.2% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 8 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 31 |
Coverity gives you the speed, ease of use, accuracy, industry standards compliance, and scalability that you need to develop high-quality, secure applications. Coverity identifies critical software quality defects and security vulnerabilities in code as it’s written, early in the development process, when it’s least costly and easiest to fix. With the Code Sight integrated development environment (IDE) plugin, developers get accurate analysis in seconds in their IDE as they code. Precise actionable remediation advice and context-specific eLearning help your developers understand how to fix their prioritized issues quickly, without having to become security experts.
Coverity seamlessly integrates automated security testing into your CI/CD pipelines and supports your existing development tools and workflows. Choose where and how to do your development: on-premises or in the cloud with the Polaris Software Integrity Platform (SaaS), a highly scalable, cloud-based application security platform. Coverity supports more than 20 languages and 200 frameworks and templates.
Code scanning is a feature that you use to analyze the code in a GitHub repository to find security vulnerabilities and coding errors. Any problems identified by the analysis are shown in GitHub.
We monitor all Static Application Security Testing (SAST) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
