Cast Highlight delivers valuable insight into your application software
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
CAST Highlight is used to scan code to find vulnerabilities and to address application health. We used this previously to address our portfolio of applications. The enterprise has since selected the tool to be used to review the portfolio across the enterprise.
Pros
- Identifies common coding vulnerabilities.
- Compares code to industry best practices.
- Assesses the code for data privacy compliance.
Cons
- Code scans could be faster. A large application may need to be broken down into smaller sub-applications in order to facilitate faster code scans.
- We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to best structure our code base in the application for ultimate performance.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think CAST is a great tool to give insight into your applications. The tool can be met with resistance from team members as the tool is going to expose defects that should be addressed. Out of the box, it may need some tailoring to focus on certain areas so that you are not overwhelmed with defects the first time you scan your code. But ultimately, you will want to eliminate all defects in the code and have all violations turned on.