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Code Coverage in .Net 2023

In the past, I have written a blog post about code coverage using NUnit, OpenCover and ReportGenerator https://www.alightservices.com/2022/06/23/code-coverage-in-net/.

OpenCover development has stopped for over 2 years.

This blog post talks about another tool known as Coverlet.

This blog posts has a accompanying Github repo – https://github.com/ALightTechnologyAndServicesLimited/CodeCoverage/

The code has 4 methods regarding DateTime class. And 3 helper methods:

  • double GetUnixEpoch(DateTime)
  • DateTime GetDateTimeFromUnixEpoch(double)
  • long GetYYYMMDD(DateTime)
  • bool IsLeapYear(int)

There are 9 unit tests for the above mentioned 4 methods.

The batch file – RunCodeCoverage.bat has the commands.

The usage is very simple, add the Coverlet nuget package, install the ReportGenerator tool and run some commands. Navigate to the unittest project.

dotnet add package coverlet.collector

dotnet tool install -g dotnet-reportgenerator-globaltool

The nuget package coverlet.collector needs to be added for every unit test project. The reportgenerator can be installed once.

Then run this command for invoking coverlet:

dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"

This generates a xml file under TestResults/[some-random-guid].

This xml file would be used by reportgenerator for generating HTML report:

reportgenerator.exe "-reports:TestResults**.*.xml" "-targetdir:report"

The above command looks for xml files under TestResults/* folder and generates HTML reports under report folder.

The HTML report looks like this. If there is any code that was not covered under unit test, those can be seen easily. The following screenshots have 100% code coverage, but if there is any code not covered, the code would be shown in red.

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Moq Non-Invocable Test Setups

Most of you might know Moq library used for unit tests in .Net. General usage of Moq is for stubbing interfaces and verifying method calls are proper with the expected parameters, but Moq can also be used for validating that a certain method has not been called.

Assume you have an interface ISpecialInterface and expecting ISpecialInterface.Method() to be called only when a certain logic happens like an if condition. If you are writing a unit test for the logic to be false, you want to verify that ISpecialInterface.Method() is not invoked.

var mockSpecialInterface = new Mock<ISpecialInterface>(MockBehavior.Strict);

            mockSpecialInterface.Setup(ss => ss.Method(It.IsAny<string>()));

            var sut = new SpecialObject(mockSpecialInterface.Object);
            sut.LogicMethod();

            mockSpecialInterface.Verify(ss => ss.Method(It.IsAny<string>()), Times.Never());

In the above code, mockSpecialInterface.Verify(ss => ss.Method(It.IsAny<string>()), Times.Never()); is the code that verifies the method is not called.

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Code coverage in .Net

This blog post can be considered obsolete. OpenCover tool has been archived. Refer to this blog post for latest:

Code coverage in .Net

This blog post covers code coverage in .Net. Particularly we would be discussing about code coverage using NUnit, OpenCover, ReportGenerator tools.

For the sake of this discusson we would assume we have some projects in the following namespaces:

Project1.Facade;

Project1.App

Project1.Service

Project1.Facade.Tests – NUnit Test Project

Project1.Service.Tests – NUnit Test Project

First we would need to run the tests using NUnit console test runner. The NUnit Console Test Runner can be downloaded from here under releases section. The assumption is the package has been installed under C:\ drive and C:\NUnit\nunit-console\nunit3-console.exe exists, if not adjust the path as necessary.

Create a batch file and call it “RunTests.bat” with the following content:

C:\NUnit\nunit-console\nunit3-console.exe .\Project1.Facade.Tests\bin\Debug\net6.0\Project1.Facade.Tests.dll
C:\NUnit\nunit-console\nunit3-console.exe .\Project1.Service.Tests\bin\Debug\net6.0\Project1.Service.Tests.dll

Now we will create another batch file “CodeCoverage.bat” for the commands for OpenCover and ReportGenerator. The assumption is that OpenCover and ReportGenerator have been installed at the following locations:

C:\OpenCover\OpenCover.Console.exe, C:\ReportGenerator\net6.0\ReportGenerator.exe.

The content of batch file would be:

C:\OpenCover\OpenCover.Console.exe -target:.\RunTests.bat -register:user -filter:"+[Project1*]* -[Project1*Tests]*" -oldstyle -mergeOutput

C:\ReportGenerator\net6.0\ReportGenerator.exe -reports:results.xml -targetdir:coverage

start .\coverage\index.htm

We first have OpenCover run the RunTests.bat it collects some data and generates results.xml file. The important parameters are the -filter, -oldstyle, -mergeOutput. The results.xml file becomes the input of ReportGenerator. ReportGeerator generates some reports and saves inside a directory by the name of coverage.

The last command opens the index.html file from the generated report.

A bunch of log files, xml files are generated during these. Assuming there are no other xml or log files, these can be removed easily by adding appropriate del commands in the second batch file.

The project structure is slightly different, but some sample Add and Subtract example screenshots can be seen below:

Hoping this post helps someone in improving coding practices! Worked a little bit late into the night, I work for myself – for my own startup, no worries!

Code coverage in .Net