Question

What are the advantage of SAST/Static application security testing?

Answer 1

The Advantages

No need to guess behavior

• Since the static tools look directly into source code, they don't need to do any guesswork for functionality.

Full access to all possible scenarios

• Static tools explore all the logical flows and all scenarios are visited.

Scales well

• These tools can be used for an application of few hundred lines of code, and also application with millions of lines of code.

Developer friendly

• Developers can integrate static analysis tools in the IDE, and it becomes part of the coding and unit testing cycle. No separate environment is required.

Uncovers all instances of a vulnerability

• If a static analysis tool uncovers a particular vulnerability then it will find out all the instances of that particular vulnerability.