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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Security testing,static program analysis,software development |
| Founded | November 2002 (2002-11) |
| Fate | Acquired byBlack Duck Software in 2025 |
| Headquarters | formerlySan Francisco, California |
Key people | Jason Schmitt (current GM) |
| Products | Coverity Code Advisor, Coverity Code Advisor on Demand, Coverity Scan, Coverity Test Advisor, Seeker |
Number of employees | 250+ |
| Parent | Black Duck Software |
| Website | blackduck |
Coverity is aproprietarystatic code analysis tool from Black Duck, Inc.[1] This product enables engineers and security teams to find and fix software defects.
Coverity started as an independent software company in 2002 at the Computer Systems Laboratory atStanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was founded by Benjamin Chelf, Andy Chou, David Park, and Seth Hallem with Stanford professorDawson Engler as a technical adviser. The headquarters was moved toSan Francisco. In June 2008, Coverity acquired Solidware Technologies.[2] In February 2014, Coverity announced an agreement to be acquired bySynopsys, anelectronic design automation company, for $375M in cash.[3]
Coverity is astatic code analysis tool forC,C++,C#,Java,JavaScript,PHP,Python,.NET,ASP.NET,Objective-C,Go, JSP,Ruby,Swift,Fortran,Scala,VB.NET, andTypeScript. It also supports more than 70 differentframeworks for Java, JavaScript, C# and other languages.[4]
Coverity Scan is a free static-analysiscloud-based service for theopen source community.
Under aUnited States Department of Homeland Security contract in 2006, the tool was used to examine over 150 open source applications for bugs; 6000 bugs found by the scan were fixed across 53 projects.[5]
TheNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration used the tool in its 2010-2011 investigation into reports ofsudden unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles.[6][7] The tool was used byCERN on the software employed in theLarge Hadron Collider[8][9] and in theNASAJet Propulsion Laboratory during the flight software development of theMars roverCuriosity.[10]