Coverity vs Parasoft SOAtest comparison

Black Duck and Parasoft are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Black Duck is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Parasoft is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.0. Black Duck holds a 7.8% mindshare in SAST, compared to Parasoft’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Black Duck users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Parasoft users who would recommend it.

Coverity

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88% willing to recommend

Parasoft SOAtest

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577 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Parasoft SOAtest and Coverity are leading tools in software testing and code analysis. Coverity holds an upper hand due to its superior feature set despite higher costs.

Features: Parasoft SOAtest provides strong automated testing, integration support, and flexibility in handling web services. Coverity offers robust static analysis, vulnerability detection, and quality assurance for complex codebases.

Room for Improvement: Parasoft SOAtest needs better documentation, improved integration options, and a more intuitive user interface. Coverity faces challenges with high complexity, a need for streamlined workflows, and demands for enhanced user guidance.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Parasoft SOAtest is noted for its straightforward deployment process. Coverity is recognized for responsive customer support. Deployment favors Parasoft SOAtest, while support leans towards Coverity.

Pricing and ROI: Parasoft SOAtest has a competitive pricing strategy and offers swift ROI. Coverity, though more expensive, promises substantial long-term ROI attributable to its advanced features.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Coverity

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

4th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Parasoft SOAtest

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

31st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (21st), API Testing Tools (9th), Test Automation Tools (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Coverity is 7.8%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Parasoft SOAtest is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

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Md. Shahriar Hussain

Information Security Analyst at Banglalink

Offers impressive reporting features with user-friendliness and high scalability

The solution can be easily setup but requires heavy integration due to the multiple types of port and programming languages involved. Comparing the resource requirements of the solution I would say it can be installed effortlessly. I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. A professional needs some pre-acquired knowledge to manage Coverity's deployment process, but the local solution partners provide support well enough for trouble-free deployment. The overall deployment process of Coverity took around two and a half hours in our organization. The deployment duration depends upon the operating system and resources including high-end RAM and CPU processors.

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Ujjwal Gupta

Project Lead at Mphasis

Easy to use and understand with multiple types of testing on offer

It is very easy to understand. We can do a lot with it. Since this is a commercial tool, we can have more functionality in place. It covers more things like ADI and APIs, et cetera. Everything is in one place, right there, so you don't need to go anywhere. With one single tool, you have everything you need. You can even test the UI as well. The initial setup is very easy. There is nice functionality under the Service Virtualization feature. The solution is stable. Technical support is helpful. This product easily scales. Parasoft actually provides very extensive coverage. For example, in SAP applications, we have various EDIs, and integrated development. That also is supported by Parasoft. In the market, we don't have many of the tools there to test those things. It's nice to be able to with this product.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The ability to scan code gives us details of existing and potential vulnerabilities. What really matters for us is to ensure that we are able to catch vulnerabilities ahead of time."

"The solution has improved our code quality and security very well."

"In my opinion, the most effective Coverity feature for identifying critical vulnerabilities is the extra checks, which offers deep analysis."

"This solution is easy to use."

"The most valuable feature of Coverity is its interprocedural analysis, which is advantageous because it compares favorably with other tools in terms of security and code analysis."

"The most valuable feature is that there were not a whole lot of false positives, at least on the codebases that I looked at."

"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."

"Coverity is easy to set up and has a less lengthy process to find vulnerabilities."

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"Generating new messages, based on the existing .EDN and .XML messages, is a crucial part or the testing project that I’m currently in."

"We have seen a return on investment."

"They have a feature where they can record traffic and create tests on the report traffic."

"We do a lot of web services testing and REST services testing. That is the focus of this product."

"Parasoft SOAtest has improved the quality of our automated web services, which can be easily implemented through service chaining and service virtualization."

"Automatic testing is the most valuable feature."

"If you want something that’s not provided out of the box, then you can write it yourself and integrate it with SOAtest."

"Technical support is helpful."

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Cons

"Coverity is not stable."

"Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."

"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."

"The product should include more customization options. The analytics is not as deep as compared to SonarQube."

"The setup takes very long."

"Coverity takes a lot of time to dereference null pointers."

"We'd like it to be faster."

"The product lacks sufficient customization options."

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"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."

"Reporting facilities can be better."

"The feedback that we received from the DevOps of our organization was that the tool was a little heavy from the transformation perspective."

"UI testing should be more in-depth."

"From an automation point of view, it should have better clarity and be more user friendly."

"The performance could be a bit better."

"The product is very slow to start up, and that is a bit of a problem, actually."

"Reports could be customized and more descriptive according to the user's or company's requirements."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool was fairly priced."

"Depending on the usage types, one has to opt for different types of licenses from Coverity, especially to be able to use areas like report viewing or report generation."

"Coverity is quite expensive."

"The licensing fees are based on the number of lines of code."

"Coverity’s price is on the higher side. It should be lower."

"I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, where one is low, and ten is high price."

"I rate Coverity's price a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"The pricing is on the expensive side, and we are paying for a couple of items."

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"They do have a confusing licensing structure."

"The price is around $5,000 USD."

"It is an expensive product, so think carefully about whether it fits your purposes and is the right tool for you."

"The license price is a little expensive, but it provides a better outcome in terms of the end-to-end automation process."

"The cost of Parasoft seems to have gotten higher with a projection that wasn't really stipulated for our company. They've done a tremendous job at negotiating those deals."

"From what I understand, Parasoft SOAtest isn't the cheapest option. But it has a lot to offer."

"We are completed satisfied with Parasoft SOAtest. The ROI is more than 95%."

"I think it would be a great step to decrease the price of the licenses."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

33%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Financial Services Firm

25%

Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How would you decide between Coverity and Sonarqube?

We researched Coverity, but in the end, we chose SonarQube. SonarQube is a tool for reviewing code quality and security. It helps to guide our development teams during code reviews by providing rem...

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What do you like most about Coverity?

The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coverity?

I do not know about the pricing.

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What do you like most about Parasoft SOAtest?

Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Parasoft SOAtest?

The price is average. It isn't overly expensive.

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What needs improvement with Parasoft SOAtest?

Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings. Going through that is a challenge. It only happens in the initial stage when we are setting up the tool, but it can be imp...

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Also Known As

Synopsys Static Analysis

SOAtest

Overview

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.

Black Duck

Parasoft SOAtest delivers fully integrated API and web service testing capabilities that automate end-to-end functional API testing. Streamline automated testing with advanced codeless test creation for applications with multiple interfaces (REST & SOAP APIs, microservices, databases, and more).

SOAtest reduces the risk of security breaches and performance outages by transforming functional testing artifacts into security and load equivalents. Such reuse, along with continuous monitoring of APIs for change, allows faster and more efficient testing.

Parasoft

Sample Customers

SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space

Charter Communications, Sabre, Caesars Entertainment, Charles Schwab, ING, Intel, Northbridge Financial, Capital Services, WoodmenLife

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