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Coverity

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American software company

Coverity is a proprietary static code analysis tool from Black Duck, Inc. 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 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was founded by Benjamin Chen, Andy Chou, David Park, and Seth Hallem with Stanford professor Dawson Engler as a technical adviser.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Nov 2002Founded1
  • Industrysecurity testing1
  • HeadquartersSan Francisco1
  • Websitecoverity.com
  • Legal formCorporation3
  • LEI549300U7MCZE9XX37C613
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressC/O The Corporation Trust Company, 19801 Wilmington, United States3

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Coverity is a proprietary static code analysis tool from Black Duck, Inc. This product enables engineers and security teams to find and fix software defects.2

Products and brands

Coverity is a static code analysis tool for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python,.NET, ASP.NET, Objective-C, Go, JSP, Ruby, Swift, Fortran, Scala, VB.NET, and TypeScript. It also supports more than 70 different frameworks for Java, JavaScript, C# and other languages.

Coverity Scan is a free static-analysis cloud-based service for the open source community.

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Timeline

  1. Nov 2002Founded Founded1

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