Exclude files or directories from Coverity Analysis

There are two ways to exclude files or directories from a Coverity Analysis scan, as the following sections describe.

• Use your configuration file

Add the following "settings" section to the configuration file. Here is an example in JSON format:

{
    "type": "Coverity configuration",
    "format_version": 1,
    "format_minor_version": 7,
    "settings": {
        "cov_run_desktop": {
            "ignore_all_files_regex":"<regex>"
        }
    }
}

• Use the Advanced options for your Coverity scan configuration

Add the option string to the Coverity section of the Advanced section of the Scan Configuration dialog (IntelliJ) or tab (VS Code).

Figure 1. --ignore-all-files-regex option in a Coverity scan configuration for IntelliJ

Figure 2. --ignore-all-files-regex option in a Coverity scan configuration for VS Code

The regular expression

In either case, the format of the string represented by <regex> depends on the operating system that you use:

Linus or macOS

Here is an example:

.*/<folder_name>/.*

Windows

Here is an example:

.*\\\\<folder_name>\\\\.*