Code coverage in .NET 5 (C#)

A .NET 5 solution example, to get metric coverage from the differents projects of the solution.

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Code coverage in .NET 5 (C#)

Description

In this project has been used the following tools and NuGet Packages to extract the metric solutions:

• Coverlet
• NUnit
• ReportGenerator

Getting Started

Dependencies or tool necessaries

• Visual Studio Community 2019
• .NET 5.0

Installing

• Clone project.
• Open NetCoreCoverage.sln

Steps (using dotnet command)

1. Build the solution in release target (from the base repository folder).

>dotnet build NetCoreCoverage.sln --configuration Release

2. Run the unit tests from the solution in relase target (from the base repository folder) and generate results. This command will displayed in the command line the results of the coverage, and futhermore, this command will generate a file (.\TestResults\coverage.cobertura.xml)

>dotnet test NetCoreCoverage.sln --configuration Release /p:CollectCoverage=true /p:CoverletOutputFormat=cobertura /p:Exclude="[xunit*]\*" /p:CoverletOutput="../TestResults/"

3. Generate report coverage metrics in html format. This command consume the '.\TestResults\coverage.cobertura.xml' file and generate a output folder with a index.hmtl file to visualize the results in a browser.

>reportgenerator "-reports:TestResults\coverage.cobertura.xml" "-targetdir:TestResults\html" -reporttypes:Html

4. Visualize the results with in the browser.

Help

Any advice for common problems or issues.

Authors

Javier Carracedo

Twitter Profile: @JaviKarra94

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License

This project is licensed under the Mit License, see the LICENSE.md file for details.