How to use: PartCover .NET 4 with NUnit 2.5.6

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Say I have Test assembly (NUnit compliant) App.Test.dll and a library to be tested App.dll.

How do I get the code coverage analysis using PartCover and NUint?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '10 at 20:32

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I concur. In my experiments (see blog post here: http://www.csharpcity.com/using-partcover-and-nunit-for-code-coverage/) I set up a project with an NUnit-complaint "AutomatedTest" project (which referenced NUnit's framework DLL and outputted a DLL full of test classes), and ran that through PartCover.

answered Jul 27 '10 at 20:32

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I had a problem when I specified +[*]namespace* as the rule. +[Namespace]* works though – Louis Rhys Jul 28 '10 at 01:52
That's strange. The partcover doc swears that between square brackets is the project namespace. I start with +[*]* and then use whatever appears in the report :) – ashes999 Jul 28 '10 at 14:47
hmm when I tried +[*]* it reported the code coverage of nunit.. is there something I did wrong here? – Louis Rhys Aug 02 '10 at 08:19
I think you've already found my other thread on this. Yes, there seems to be a bug in PartCover. – ashes999 Aug 03 '10 at 17:23

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '10 at 09:44

The easiest way is to set up an NUnit test project (which runs App.Test.dll), then from PartCover call the NUnit console runner and pass the project name as a parameter. I have a blog post about it if you want to check that out.

(I haven't tried with .Net 4 or the latest versions of NUnit/PartCover but I'm assuming it's still the same).

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 19 '11 at 05:18

It took me a while to figure out how get the source code markings. I had to put a /noshadow flag in the "Working Arguments". /noshadow prevents NUnit to make shadow copies of the files and will allow PartCover to load source files in the browser.

Then just click "Views->View Coverage Detail" after the run.

How to use: PartCover .NET 4 with NUnit 2.5.6

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