The universal acclaim that greeted the release of “Code Blaster” last week presented the NCover team with another great opportunity — a Desktop demo using everyone’s favorite code coverage game! The new “NCover 4 Desktop and Code Blaster” video is a more extensive look… Continue Reading
Blowing Up Some Code
September 7, 2012
Any testing worth its asserts is going to do just that, blow up code when there’s a problem. Let’s face it testers are destructive by profession. Embrace it! It’s either that or pass broken software along to customers. So in honor of all our… Continue Reading
Reactivating NCover 4 Desktop
September 4, 2012
There are several scenarios that may require you to reactivate your NCover license: You have a trial version of NCover 4 Desktop, you purchased a new license and need to activate it in place of the trial key code. You have upgraded from NCover… Continue Reading
NCover 4 and TeamCity TestRunner Integration
August 28, 2012
A few weeks ago, I posted about build server integration with NCover 4, and said that the dev team was working to improve TeamCity coverage, so here’s the good news about NUnit integration! You can still run nunit-console from your build script if you… Continue Reading
Visualizing Branch Coverage
August 24, 2012
As a follow-up to my post on understanding coverage metric, I want to explain how you can better visualize branch coverage. One of the reasons we feature both sequence point coverage and branch coverage numbers so prominently is that they are both essential to… Continue Reading
The NCover RUN Command
August 21, 2012
Remember in my post last week how I said that we had more functionality coming to make life easier for you? Here it is! The RUN Command Last week’s post described the USE and SUMMARIZE commands. The RUN command combines these two commands into a… Continue Reading
Understanding Branch Coverage
August 14, 2012
As you might have discovered by now, not all code coverage metrics are the same. In fact, you will probably get slightly different numbers from every tool that you use. The reason for this discrepancy is that there are many variations for breaking code… Continue Reading
The Continuous Integration Workflow
August 14, 2012
We’ve been working ’round the clock here at NCover to maintain the best code coverage tool in the world! I’d like to explain the tools we’ve introduced in NCover 4 to make it as simple as possible to integrate NCover into your build. So… Continue Reading