Cast Highlight delivers valuable insight into your application software
November 21, 2019

Cast Highlight delivers valuable insight into your application software

Gene Baker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with CAST Highlight

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.
  • Identifies common coding vulnerabilities.
  • Compares code to industry best practices.
  • Assesses the code for data privacy compliance.
  • 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.
  • I believe once we had the tool working for our code base, we immediately saw positive ROI.
  • We spent some time getting to where our code code be scanned efficiently but some of that was trying to do things ourselves instead of fully utilizing Cast Professional Services. I highly recommend to do an engagement with CAST to have them help setup the tool in your environment or to run it in the cloud for you.
These other tools only do a part of what CAST does. CAST gives a comprehensive view into the code looking at all aspects, code quality, security, maintainability, vulnerability, privacy, reuse, etc. These other tools only focus on one or two dimensions.
Tech support and pro services are top-notch.

Do you think CAST Highlight delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with CAST Highlight's feature set?

Yes

Did CAST Highlight live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of CAST Highlight go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy CAST Highlight again?

Yes

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.