HOW TO GET A CODE COVERAGE REPORT IN C# PROJECT

The following instructions are based on this two tutorials:

• Creating a test module with xUnit
• Getting code coverage and generating report

What will you need?

• Test project with Coverlet.Collector and xUnit NuGet package installed.
• Install the report generation tool from the console: dotnet tool install -g dotnet-reportgenerator-globaltool

Steps

Run these commands while located on the Test Project directory:

1. Getting a covertura file: dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage" (if that doesn't work, try alternative: dotnet test /p:CollectCoverage=true /p:CoverletOutputFormat=cobertura)
2. Generating a report from the covertura file: reportgenerator "-reports:Path\To\TestProject\TestResults\{guid}\coverage.cobertura.xml" "-targetdir:coveragereport" -reporttypes:Html