Viewing Code Coverage Results outside of Visual studio

Question

I've got some unit tests, and got some code coverage data. Now, I'd like to be able to view that code coverage data outside of visual studio, say in a web browser. But, when I export the code coverage to an xml file, I can't do anything with it. Are there readers out there for this? Do I have to write an xml parser and then display it how I want it (seems like a waste since visual studio already does this.) Seems kinda silly to have to take a screenshot of my code coverage results as my "report" Suggestions?

Answer 1

I use NCover to do all my code coverage and you have the ability to export the results quite easily

Answer 2

I'd suggest installing Jamie Cansdale's wonderful testing add-in TestDriven.NET then right click on your test project ... test with coverage and you can export NCover report as html.

http://testdriven.net

HTH,

Dan

Answer 3

I can't speak for the content of the exported XML, but I'd expect it contain your coverage data as a summary.

The usual thing to do with XML data like this if you want to see it in a web browser page is to convert it to HTML by writing and running a custom XSLT script. This will presumably get you HTML text and tables containing your data.

If you want to see the coverage data as decorations imposed on the source code, I think you have a much harder problem.

Answer 4

You can use NDepend and visualize code coverage results imported from NCover or Visual Studio coverage. You can also write and apply continuously cool rules like:

Code refactored recently should be 100% covered by test:

WARN IF Count > 0 IN SELECT METHODS WHERE CodeWasChanged AND PercentageCoverage < 100

Types tagged with the attribute MyNamespace.FullCoveredAttribute must be thoroughly covered by tests:

WARN IF Count > 0 IN SELECT TYPES WHERE HasAttribute "MyNamespace.FullCoveredAttribute" AND PercentageCoverage < 100

More documentation here:

http://www.ndepend.com/Coverage.aspx

Make the most of your test coverage data