NCover Collector and Code Central provide a robust framework for collecting code coverage in testing and quality assurance environments. These tools make it easier to collect coverage unattended with and provide collection configuration. Using Code Central as the administrative hub, projects for code collection are… Continue Reading
Installer Options: Restore Point & Global Environment
December 7, 2012
Our highest priority when designing the NCover 4 installer was to make it “just work” in the simplest way possible. Yes, yes, I know there are a ton of options and differing opinions on how much control users want over the installation. I’m not… Continue Reading
Merge Coverage for Rebuilt Assemblies
December 5, 2012
NCover 4 was designed to eliminate dubious coverage merging from differing builds of software assemblies. There are, however, legitimate cases when assemblies can have differing binary contents, but are actually created from the same source code. Indeed, the binary output of any given build… Continue Reading
Isolating NCover code coverage collection within a command session
November 29, 2012
With the version 4 release, NCover now monitors programs for coverage rather than making the user jump through hoops to launch their program in just the right way to get coverage. For simple testing, the difference is probably not very noticeable, but for software… Continue Reading
Covering MSTest in Visual Studio 2012
November 21, 2012
An earlier NCover blog post described how to make coverage in VS 2010 easier by changing the VS test settings. With VS 2012, there’s a new coverage wrinkle — VS 2012 starts a new test execution process called “vstest.executionengine”. This takes the form of… Continue Reading
Build Agent Unattended Deployment of NCover 4
November 1, 2012
Build server automation tools for continuous integration (CI) are plenteous. Teams bounce from one to another based on pricing and features, and would grab a new brass ring each time they rebuild their CI server if they could. It’s the nature of the beast…. Continue Reading
Service Dependency Update!Important
October 26, 2012
It has recently come to the attention of the development team that many customers are experiencing a service restart problem with the NCover Windows service when they reboot their machines. The symptom reported is that when rebooting a server or desktop, the NCover service… Continue Reading
Using NCover Floating Licenses
October 25, 2012
Over the years, we’ve had many requests for floating licenses from our customers. Some have clusters of build servers that build and test code centrally. Others have fleets of virtual machines that are prepared to run various scripted integration tests. At times, in order… Continue Reading