Coverity Desktop is a supplemental Coverity Analysis tool that allows you to identify issues in your source code within the Visual Studio IDE.
Analysis results from your code base are displayed in the Coverity Desktop plug-in to help you find and report hard-to-spot software defects and potential security vulnerabilities.
Coverity Desktop provides two analysis modes:
After Coverity Desktop displays your issue data, you can view the issues for your project marked directly in the IDE's code editor view. Coverity Desktop provides two views: Issues and Details. Use these views to navigate through your issues, to determine the impact of the issues on your code, and to manage and update (triage) the state of each issue.
Installation instructions and supported platform details can be found in "Installing Coverity Desktop components" in the Coverity Installation and Upgrade Guide.