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Coverity

Overview

GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, helping individuals and teams to write faster, better code

Coverity is a static application security testing (SAST) solution designed to help businesses manage risks across the application portfolio, address quality defects in the software development life cycle, and maintain compliance with many coding and security standards.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

4

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

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No pricing info

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.8

6.2K

5

4

3

2

1

4.8K

1.2K

98

7

2

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
92%
would recommend this app

3.5

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

3

3

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
40%
would recommend this app

Pros

“We run pull requests through it daily for our backend services, and the review flow (inline comments, suggested changes, required approvals before merge) makes it easy to keep code quality high even when we're shipping fast.”
KS

Kaynan S.

Software Engineer

“The platform improves visibility into code changes, simplifies collaboration between technical teams, and helps ensure deployments are organized and traceable.”
DR

Dave R.

Manager

“GitHub provides a centralized platform for version control, pull requests, code reviews, issue tracking, and CI/CD automation, making the entire software development lifecycle more efficient.”
Verified reviewer profile picture

Himanshu G.

AI Engineer

Pros

Not enoughreviews yet

Cons

“GitHub has tried to simplify things over the years, but it still lacks a genuinely user-friendly, abstracted environment for non-developers who just need to collaborate on data or check progress.”
MC

Mark C.

Membership Secretary, Trustee and Designer

“The learning curve can be pretty steep if you’re new to Git concepts like rebasing or complex conflict resolution.”
BR

Brendan R.

Workshop Manager

Cons

Not enoughreviews yet

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review6 days ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review3 years ago

Key features

  • Total features66
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Application Security
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Debugging
  • Deployment Management
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • For Developers
  • For Small Businesses
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile App
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Projects
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Projections
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Release Management
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Static Analysis
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki
  • Total features15
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Application Security
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Debugging
  • Deployment Management
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • For Developers
  • For Small Businesses
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile App
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Projects
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Projections
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Release Management
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Static Analysis
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki

Integrations

  • Total integrations15
  • Apache Subversion
  • Bugzilla
  • CircleCI
  • Docker
  • Eclipse
  • Git
  • Google Cloud
  • Heroku
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Mercurial
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PyCharm
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code
  • WebStorm
  • Total integrations12
  • Apache Subversion
  • Bugzilla
  • CircleCI
  • Docker
  • Eclipse
  • Git
  • Google Cloud
  • Heroku
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Mercurial
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PyCharm
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code
  • WebStorm