2025 Vendor Impact Awards:
Software Testing & SCA Tools

by Joe Abajian, Associate, with Dan Mandell, Director, and Chris Rommel, EVP

The pace of software innovation is accelerating—and so are the challenges.

From AI-generated code to sprawling multi-language repositories and increasingly strict compliance demands, development teams are under mounting pressure to deliver secure, high-quality code at speed.

To help engineering leaders navigate this complexity, VDC Research’s 2025 Vendor Impact Awards spotlight the top Static Analysis, Dynamic Testing, and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool vendors. Award winners were selected based on responses from over 600 qualified engineers across industries and use cases.

Read the VDC View to get a full breakdown of 2025’s winning vendors and insights on what factors are shaping today’s software quality and security landscape.