We performed a comparison between Klocwork and Veracode 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."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."
"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."
"The most valuable feature is the Incremental analysis."
"It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration."
"The ability to create custom checkers is a plus."
"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."
"On-the-fly analysis and incremental analysis are the best parts of Klocwork. Currently, we are using both of these features very effectively."
"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."
"It has provided what we were looking for in such an application, meaning static application security testing functionality. That was what we were interested in."
"The solution is stable. we've never had any issues surrounding its stability."
"The time savings has been tremendous. We saw ROI in the first six months."
"Veracode's technical support is great. They assigned us a TAM and once a week, we have a brief engagement with the TAM to verify that everything's going well. If we have any outstanding issues, they get serviced and addressed."
"The static scan is the feature that we use the most, as it gives us insight into our source code. We have it integrated with our continuous integration, continuous delivery system, so we can get insight quickly."
"It can be very hard to make a good lab environment with a console with log windows and code bases. What I like about Veracode is that they managed to do that. It has a very responsive graphical user interface and has worked very well. I was very pleased with that."
"The source composition analysis had very good reporting."
"One thing that I like about Veracode is that it is quite a good tool for dynamic application testing."
"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."
"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."
"I hope that in each new release they add new features relating to the addition of checkers, improving their analysis engines etc."
"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork. They have recently added Kotlin as a part of their project, but we would like to see more languages in Klocwork. That's the reason we are using Coverity as a backup for some of the other languages."
"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."
"I would like to see better codes between projects and a more user-friendly desktop in the next release."
"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."
"The scanning could be a little faster. The process around three or four minutes, but it would help if it could be further reduced."
"Veracode can be slow at times and has room for improvement, which may cause delays in our products and prolonged static scans."
"In the next release, I would like a proper way of packaging files for scanning and the packing of IOS apps and API Dynamic scan methodology."
"The user interface can sometimes be a little challenging to work with, and they seem to be changing their algorithm on what is an issue. I understand why they do it, but it sometimes causes more work on our end."
"I've seen slightly better static analysis tools from other companies when it comes to speed and ease of use."
"We use Ruby on Rails and we still don't have any support for that from Veracode."
"The scanning takes a lot of time to complete."
"If the dynamic scan is improved, then the speed might go up. That is somehow not happening. We have raised this concern. It might also help if they could time limit scans to 24 hours instead of letting them go for three days. Then, whatever results could be shared, even if the scan is not complete, that would definitely help us."
Klocwork is ranked 16th in Application Security Tools with 20 reviews while Veracode is ranked 2nd in Application Security Tools with 194 reviews. Klocwork is rated 8.2, while Veracode is rated 8.2. 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 Veracode writes "Helps to reduce false positives and prevent vulnerable code from entering production, but does not support incremental scanning ". Klocwork is most compared with SonarQube, Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover, CodeSonar and Parasoft SOAtest, whereas Veracode is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx One, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and OWASP Zap. See our Klocwork vs. Veracode report.
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