Custom analysis settings

Changing the settings used for Coverity Analysis is described in existing documentation. We won’t go into details here. If you do edit coverity.conf to specify custom settings, proceed with caution.

These are resources that provide more information about editing coverity.conf:

• The Coverity Desktop Analysis User Guide describes the coverity.conf settings in detail.

  The Coverity document set, which includes the Desktop Analysis User Guide, where coverity.conf is described, is installed on a client system when Coverity Analysis is installed.

  The default location of these documents depends on the operating system you are using. See the following table:

  Table 1. Where Coverity docs are installed by default

  Platform	Location of Coverity documents
  Linux or Mac	/Users/<username>/.blackduck/desktop/controller/installedtools/coverity-analysis/<version>/doc/en/
  Windows	C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\BlackDuck\desktop\controller\installedtools\coverity-analysis\<version>\doc\en\

• The following lesson on the Black Duck Community web site describes how to edit coverity.conf for use with Code Sight: “How to Set Up the Coverity Desktop Analysis Configuration File – coverity.conf”.