NCoverExplorer... v1.3.1

Syndicated from Kiwidude's Geek Spot

A ton of new features in the latest release, and a few bugs fixed ranging from minor annoyance (code highlighting) to downright critical for some (supporting .Net 2.0 features like partial classes and generics - thanks to Jamie Cansdale & Andreas Hofer in particular for pointing out the issues!).

As per usual you can download this version with the just released build (2.0.1435) of TestDriven.Net or as a standalone product via the links at the bottom of this post.

What's New? Loads... more than I'm going to mention here (see the release notes for the full list). Let's look at the options dialog:


Apart from the new tabbed appearance there are some other new options to note here:

  • Namespaces will now be "flattened" by default which is the same appearance as Reflector or the VS.Net 2005 class viewer (see screenshot below).
  • For the VB.Net crowd out there you can now exclude the "My" namespace by default which NCover includes in the results, distorting your coverage percentages.
  • An optional threshold for the number of unvisited lines in a method. Acts in a similar way to the existing % threshold feature but just another way of convincing yourself things aren't as bad as they may first seem...

Probably the most requested feature I have had is the ability to customise the colours - so here you go! There is more to come in the future on this but for now you can change:

Moving onto the display itself, you can see some new menu options in the tree view and the default view of a "Flat" namespace hierarchy below:

The two new right-click menu options are:

  • Remove from results - does what it says on the tin. This option is context aware so you can use it to "prune" your coverage tree - be it to remove a unit test assembly as shown above or exclude a class. After the remove action is selected NCoverExplorer recalculates the percentages in the tree.
  • Collapse All - collapses every single coverage node in the tree.

Next is the statistics pane. This has had quite a revamp (my thanks to Andrzej Kaczmarczyk for his suggestions). Clicking on a class node now produces a summary of all the methods and the number of times they were executed (shown below). The columns are now sortable as well. This offers a rudimentary form of code profiling analysis.

Clicking on a method node is also slightly tweaked to show the method name.

The final new feature I think worth highlighting is that by default NCoverExplorer now tries to restore your cursor position / current selected node when reloading a coverage file. So when used in conjunction with the superb TestDriven.Net "Test With... Coverage" feature you no longer need to keep re-expanding the nodes to get to where you last were...

I look forward to your feedback with any additional suggestions, comments... or even dare I suggest new bugs! This release has made quite a dent in the features todo list but there's still a number of things on it yet...

Also very much worth noting - the latest NCover beta release 1.5.3 is now available - highly recommended for the bug fixes alone. Thanks Peter!

Download NCoverExplorer 1.3.1 binaries (203KB)
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2 Comments

  • This is great. I've been waiting/looking for a nice frontend to NCover.



    Question: Why does the source for properties not have highlighting?



    Thanks

  • You guys have done an awesome job. The NCover/NCoverExplorer integration is amazing.



    I used TD.Net for a while about a year or so ago and had some process-locking issues, requiring me to stop using it. These latest releases have been working just fine.

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