diff --git a/COMPILING b/COMPILING
index a9681890bd..13b8339abd 100644
--- a/COMPILING
+++ b/COMPILING
@@ -203,3 +203,20 @@ To work with Eclipse, do the following:
 6) Select Project -> Build All
 
 
+CODE COVERAGE
+-------------
+
+Code coverage metrics are provided using gcov and lcov. Ensure that you
+have installed lcov from http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php
+note for ubuntu lcov is available in the standard apt-get repos.
+
+To get coverage metrics run the following script from the regression
+directory:
+
+  get_coverage.sh
+
+This will:
+ 1) Rebuild CBMC with gcov enabled
+ 2) Run all the regression tests
+ 3) Collate the coverage metrics
+ 4) Provide an HTML report of the current coverage
diff --git a/regression/get_coverage.sh b/regression/get_coverage.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..e4907835e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/regression/get_coverage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Get a unique number to prevent collision of output files
+outputDir=`mktemp -d ./coverage_XXXXX`
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    printf "ERROR: Could not create output directoy"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Check that the previous command succeded, if not exit.
+commandStatus()
+{
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    printf "[ERROR]\n"
+    echo "ERROR: See $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out for more information"
+    exit 1
+    fi
+    printf "[OK]\n"
+}
+
+# Check that lcov has been installed
+printf "INFO: Checking lcov is installed "
+lcov -version > $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out 2>&1
+commandStatus
+
+# Remove any previous build that may not have coverage in it.
+printf "INFO: Cleaning CBMC build "
+make clean -C ../src >> $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out 2>&1
+commandStatus
+
+printf "INFO: Building CBMC with Code Coverage enabled "
+# Run the usual make target with --coverage to add gcov instrumentation
+make CXXFLAGS="--coverage" LINKFLAGS="--coverage" -C ../src >> $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out 2>&1
+commandStatus
+
+printf "INFO: Running Regression tests "
+# Run regression tests which will collect the coverage metrics and put them in the src files
+make >> $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out 2>&1
+printf "[DONE]\n"
+
+printf "INFO: Gathering coverage metrics "
+# Gather all of the coverage metrics into a single file
+lcov --capture --directory ../src --output-file $outputDir/cbmcCoverage.info >> $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out 2>&1
+commandStatus
+
+printf "INFO: Removing unwanted metrics (for external libaries) "
+# Remove the metrics for files that aren't CBMC's source code
+lcov --remove $outputDir/cbmcCoverage.info '/usr/*' --output-file $outputDir/cbmcCoverage.info >> $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out 2>&1
+commandStatus
+
+printf "INFO: Creating coverage report "
+# Generate the HTML coverage report
+genhtml $outputDir/cbmcCoverage.info --output-directory $outputDir/cbmcCoverage >> $outputDir/cbmc_coverage.out 2>&1
+commandStatus
+echo "INFO: Coverage report is availabe in $outputDir/cbmcCoverage"