Runtime Coverage Filters

Viewing and modifying runtime filters

There are two scopes for coverage filters:

• All Solutions - global filters that apply to all solutions in your computer.

• Current Solution - per-solution filters that apply to the current solution. You can share these filters with your team; see Sharing coverage filters for details.

You can view and edit coverage filters in the Coverage Filters dialog. To open this dialog, do one of the following:

• In Visual Studio, press Ctrl+Alt+K F or choose ReSharper | Cover | Edit Coverage Filters... from the main menu

• In dotCover standalone application, press Ctrl+Alt+K F or choose File | Edit Coverage Filters... in the menu.

When you open this dialog, you can see filters in both scopes. If no solution is opened, the dialog shows only global filters.

By default, dotCover provides two global filters for excluding code items by the ExcludeFromCodeCoverageAttribute and GeneratedCodeAttribute attributes. If necessary, you can enable/disable, modify or remove it.

To view and modify current runtime coverage filters

1. Open the Coverage Filters dialog.

2. Use the Group by selector to change the grouping of filters - by scope or by kind.

3. To enable or disable a filter, use the check box next to it.

4. To remove a filter, select it in the list and click Delete

5. To edit a filter, select it in the list and click Edit. In the Edit Coverage Filter dialog that appears, make necessary changes as described for adding a new filter below.

6. Click Save to save and apply your modifications, if any.

Adding new runtime filters

To add a new runtime coverage filter

1. In the Coverage Filters dialog, click Add filter.

2. In the Add Coverage Filter dialog that appears, choose the type of filter rule:

   • Analyze code in - to include the specified code item into code coverage analysis and exclude all other code items.

   • Do not analyze code in - to exclude the specified code item from code coverage analysis.

   • Do not analyze code marked with attribute - to exclude code items with the specified attribute from code coverage analysis.

3. If you have chosen one of the first two options, specify an assembly, a class, and/or a method to be included or excluded in the coverage analysis. Code items are filtered independently on one another. For example, if you specify a method and leave asterisks (*) for assembly and class to exclude methods with the specified name from all assemblies and all classes.

   You can use asterisk wildcards when specifying code item names in a filter: '*' (asterisk) represents zero or more characters.
   For example, you can use the *.Tests wildcard that will exclude all test projects from code analysis.

4. If you have chosen the last option, specify the name of the attribute that will be used to exclude symbols from the coverage analysis. Optionally, specify the assembly name where this attribute is declared.

5. In the Apply filter to section, specify the scope of the filter: All solutions or Current solution.

6. Click OK to finish adding the filter.

7. In the Coverage Filters dialog, click Save to save and apply your modifications.

Sharing runtime coverage filters

Solution-wide filters are saved in the Solution team-shared settings layer and, therefore, can be shared within other developers who work on this solution.

In fact, all you need to do to share solution-wide filters is to put the [SolutionName].sln.DotSettings file in your solution folder under a version control system (VCS). As soon as other team members get this file from VCS the filters will be applied on their computers as well.

Note that other JetBrains products that integrate into Visual Studio may store their solution-wide team-shared settings in the same file. Therefore, if you put this file under VCS, bear in mind that other product's settings may be shared as well. For more information, see Managing and Sharing dotCover Settings.

Excluding system and non-solution assemblies from application coverage analysis

When performing coverage analysis of applications, you have additional filters for non-solution and system assemblies in the Filtering options:

• (Recommended) If you are going to analyze coverage only for assemblies in your solution, select both Exclude system assemblies and Exclude non-solution assemblies. This will make coverage analysis faster.

• If you are going to analyze coverage for assemblies from several solutions at once, clear Exclude non-solution assemblies.

• If, for some reason, you want to analyze coverage in system assemblies, clear Exclude system assemblies.