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At NCover, .NET code coverage is what we do. Our team is dedicated to helping .NET developers around the world make their C# code sharp and their .NET applications rock solid. Every day we work to ensure that fellow coders have the best code coverage solution possible to deliver the highest quality software solutions.

NCover Collector Merge and Sync Control

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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