When it comes to measuring the overall quality of your code, there are a variety of code coverage metrics you can use. Typically, each metric will follow a particular methodology for breaking code down into sections and then reporting on which of those sections were tested…. Continue Reading
Development
Code coverage is most valuable as a feedback mechanism for test-driven or agile development methodologies. Both of these methods rely on a developmental feedback loop that promotes the addition of features while maintaining a predictable quality level.
Resource Article on Covering Your Build Server
April 21, 2014
Development teams are often interested in collecting code coverage on their build servers. With NCover and Code Central, you can easily monitor any number of build servers and test machines and collect coverage data. Covering your build server is a key component of an… Continue Reading
Code Coverage Impacts Your Health(care)
December 3, 2013
Regardless of your political persuasion, I think there are very few developers who don’t cringe when they think about the healthcare.gov debacle that has consumed U.S.and global headlines for the past few months. System errors, complete outages, screens that wouldn’t load and forms that… Continue Reading
Video Tutorial on Adding and Modifying Covered Processes
August 5, 2013
The collection of code coverage and the presentation and interpretation of its results is a dynamic process. The ability to quickly add and modify covered processes is crucial in an agile development environment. Project Settings in NCover Code Central and Desktop make the process… Continue Reading
Video Tutorial on Managing Code Coverage Threshold Levels With NCover
July 30, 2013
Great code is the ultimate goal for every programmer. Having code that functions properly makes everyone, including your own clients, happy. Code coverage threshold levels within NCover Code Central and Desktop allow you to set customizable threshold levels to determine whether your code is… Continue Reading
Video Tutorial on Merging And Consolidating To Join Multiple Executions with NCover
July 22, 2013
WIth NCover, you can collect code coverage across multiple machines, multiple users and multiple executions. Aggregating all of this data is part of what makes NCover so effective in improving overall .NET code quality. It can also create a lot of data. By merging… Continue Reading
Video Tutorial on Creating A New NCover Code Coverage Project
June 27, 2013
Every day our own development team works hard to make NCover both powerful enough to handle all of your .NET code coverage scenarios and easy enough to get started on your code coverage project quickly. How quickly can you get started? Well, we put… Continue Reading
NCover 4.3: Scalability & Performance
April 24, 2013
Today NCover 4.3 has been released to general availability. The improvements in this release are in direct response to the vision and growth we’ve encouraged our teams to pursue since we launched version 4 last summer: “Cover it all! Unit tests, integration tests, manual… Continue Reading