Tag: OpenCover
Night-night OpenCover
All good things come to an end and I feel this is the time for OpenCover development to cease whilst the memories are good.
Not dead yet...
So it has been a while but I am glad to finally say I have released another version of OpenCover - 4.7.922....
The importance of canary builds.
So now that Visual Studio 2017 is officially out I thought I would use the long Easter weekend to upgrade the OpenCover project to this new version and tackle any...
Death by a thousand cuts
Every year I decide to spend some time refreshing OpenCover i.e. upgrading to the latest tools such as Visual Studio, upgrading all the packages that OpenCover depends on etc. etc....
Improving your source code quality
One reason I work on Open Source projects such as OpenCover is so that I can try things out, experiment if you wish, sometimes it's TDD techniques or a new...
Free stuff for Open Source .NET development
For the past few years that I've been been working on OpenCover I've had the opportunity to use a number of tools during its development, a few of those are...
Happy Birthday OpenCover
Today OpenCover is 4 (four) years old, where has the time gone? In that time it has had over 60,000...
Excluding code from coverage...
This may (no guarantees) turn into a series of posts on how to refactor your code for testing using simple examples....
A simple TDD example
I recently posted a response to StackOverflow wrt TDD and Coverage and I thought it would be worth re-posting the response here. The example is simple but hopefully shows how writing...
Getting code coverage from your .NET testing using OpenCover.
Application Tracing
So OpenCover is as feature complete as I care to take it at the moment, I may do this one feature involving Windows Store applications should I have a need for...
Mutation Testing; a use for re-JIT?
Mutation testing is described as modifying a program in small amounts and then executing the original 'passing' tests that exercise...
Unusual coverage in VB.NET
Recently a user posted on StackOverflow on why he was seeing unusual coverage results in VB.NET with MSTEST and Visual Studio. The the question already had answers that helped the questioner...
Adding OpenCover to TeamCity
Adding OpenCover to the latest version of TeamCity (6.5) couldn't be easier however if you need help follow these simple steps....
The problem with sequence coverage. (part 2)
Previously I mentioned why just relying on sequence coverage is not a good idea as it is possible to have 100% sequence coverage but not 100% code coverage. However I...
The problem with sequence coverage.
Sequence coverage is probably the simplest coverage metric, the information is packaged in PDB files and can be read using tools like Mono.Cecil, but just because a method has 100% sequence...
OpenCover Performance Impact (part 2)
I think I now have a handle on why I was getting the results I earlier reported i.e. OpenCover and PartCover were not some magical performance boosters that added Go...
OpenCover Performance Impact
So how does OpenCover's profiling impact your testing. The best way is to get some figures so that you can judge for yourself....
How do we get Users out of [open source] Welfare?
Okay an odd title but something I've been thinking about for some time and I suppose is the source of much frustration I have been having whilst maintaining...
OpenCover First Beta Release
Okay, the first post on a blog I created many, many months ago and still not got round to starting. Why the delay? Well, just been busy and not a lot to say; actually some would say...