Lazycoder

Code Coverage and .NET

Dana Epp’s ramblings at the Sanctuary : Team System Testing: Microsoft just might have it right

Dana, whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at two geek dinners (both held in his honor) blogs about the demo he got of the MS team testing tools (I like that TLA better than EDT, Which would you rather say on stage “Using EDT we can…” or “Using triple T we can …”?)

I’ve only found one tool that attempts to bring code coverage reporting to .NET. NCover (You knew that was coming though didn’t you? What else could they name it given NUnit and NAnt?). There are plenty for Java. But NCover is the first one I’ve seen for .NET that you can use now. The HTML based reports might be a little clunky. Certainly not as integrated as the IDE color coding that Dana saw Monday night. I haven’t seen Clovers IntelliJ integration, but their HTML reports do the same kind of color coding.

Microsoft continues to learn from an established Java community and port their wheels to our system.

edit: My mistake. Clover integrates with IntelliJ as well as NetBeans, Eclipse, JDeveloper 10g, and JBuilder. That’s pretty damn impressive. I wonder if the SharpDevelop team is getting any help from the MS test team to integrate with their product?