Coverity Static Analysis

Black Duck Coverity® is an enterprise-grade static analysis solution that finds and fixes security vulnerabilities and code quality defects before your software ships. Built for developers and backed by security teams, Coverity scans source code without executing it — analyzing entire codebases across files and libraries to uncover complex defects that span multiple components.

Coverity builds an in-depth structural model of each application, combining insights into dependencies, compilers, and language semantics to achieve a depth of analysis that competitors cannot approach. It supports 22 programming languages, more than 250 frameworks, and a wide range of infrastructure-as-code platforms — with particular strength in C and C++ analysis for safety-critical and embedded software development. Black Duck has been recognized as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Application Security Testing for eight consecutive years, and is a leader in Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security.

Coverity provides best-in-class coverage across security, functional safety, and industry standards — a critical differentiator for regulated industries. Supported standards include:

Security: OWASP Top 10 (Web and Mobile), SANS/CWE Top 25, PCI DSS, DISA STIG

Functional Safety: MISRA C (2004, 2012, 2023, 2025), MISRA C++ (2008, 2023), AUTOSAR C++ 14, CERT C/C++/Java, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, EN 50657, DO-178C, ISO 23434, ISO/IEC TS 17961, Hyundai Secure Coding Standards

Coverity is certified by TÜV SÜD as meeting requirements for support tools under IEC 61508-3, qualified for use up to ASIL D under ISO 26262 and Level A under DO-178C. The Coverity Qualification Kit (Q-Kit) ensures correct configuration for safety-critical projects. Compliance reports are downloadable as PDFs, and trend reports demonstrate remediation progress per standard over time — essential for auditors and regulatory submissions.

Three capabilities that are difficult or impossible to replicate in competing tools make Coverity the default choice for automotive, aerospace, medical device, and industrial control system development:

Depth of C/C++ analysis: Coverity's path-sensitive engine builds a full structural model of each application — tracking pointer arithmetic, memory aliasing, and thread synchronization across the entire codebase and its dependencies — enabling a depth of analysis that surfaces complex, multi-component defects no comparable tool can reach. The accuracy of results is a critical differentiator: Coverity is built to surface more true positives than competing tools, catching dangerous defects and vulnerabilities that others miss, while ensuring your remediation budget goes toward actual defects, not triage noise.

TÜV SÜD safety certification: Coverity is certified for use up to ASIL D (ISO 26262) and Level A (DO-178C), backed by a formal Qualification Kit that documents tool operation, failure modes, and self-test procedures required by safety standards.

Air-gapped deployment: For classified, defense, and regulated environments that cannot connect to external networks, Coverity's fully air-gapped on-premises deployment — including Kubernetes cluster support — is a hard requirement that most SaaS-first competitors simply cannot meet.

Contact the Black Duck sales team directly through the Coverity pricing page to request a no-obligation quote or a guided evaluation scoped to your codebase, language mix, and deployment requirements.

When structuring your evaluation, focus on six dimensions that separate high-quality static analysis tools from commodity alternatives: depth of language and framework support for your specific stack, accuracy of results, compliance standard coverage, deployment flexibility, developer workflow integration, and total cost of ownership including remediation time and audit overhead.

Coverity is also available through Black Duck's partner network and managed service providers. For organizations that want the Coverity analysis engine with cloud-native delivery, Polaris fAST Static delivers the same engine through a SaaS subscription bundled with Black Duck SCA and DAST on the Polaris Platform. Coverity can also be bundled with Black Duck SCA and Polaris to maximize coverage across your entire software portfolio, while optimizing cost efficiency.

Coverity pricing is delivered through a custom enterprise quote model. Coverity can be bundled with Black Duck SCA and Polaris to maximize coverage across your entire software portfolio. Contact Black Duck through the Coverity pricing page to get a quote customized to your team size and codebase.