Use cases

The use cases described in this section provide a high-level workflow of how you can use Coverity Desktop within your organization. The use cases are:

Central analysis
Local analysis
Central and local analysis

All of the use cases below use the following user roles/personas to demonstrate a particular workflow:

Build Engineer is responsible for the central code repository, including using Coverity tools for Analysis Configuration, analysis runs, and committing the results to a central Coverity Connect server.
IDE Developer is a member of a software development team that uses the Visual Studio IDE for development and Coverity Desktop to view and triage central analysis and/or local analysis issue results.