Compatibilities

General requirements and compatibility

The list of supported .NET Framework and Visual Studio versions as well as system requirements are available on the product website.

Supported languages

dotCover can analyze test coverage in C#, F#, and VB.NET.

Supported unit testing frameworks

NUnit — dotCover installation includes 2 bundled test runners that support versions up to 2.6.4 and up to 3.11.1 correspondingly.
MSTest for all supported Visual Studio versions
xUnit
Custom test frameworks that use Visual Studio test adapter extensibility.
To enable VSTest adapters support, select the corresponding checkbox on the Tools | Unit Testing | Test Frameworks | VSTest page of dotCover options (Alt+R, O).
bUnit - a testing library for Blazor components
Machine.Specifications (requires an extension).

Supported CPU architectures

CPU	Details
x86, x64	Windows, Linux, macOS: See details. Linux (musl-based): .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0–7.0 on x64 only. Only Alpine 3.13-3.15 is supported.
arm64	Windows: full support by dotCover Standalone, the command-line tool, dotCover in Visual Studio, and dotCover in JetBrains Rider. Windows 11: .NET 5.0–7.0 only. Linux (glibc-based): GLIBC_2.23 or later. Linux (musl-based): .NET 5.0–7.0. Only Alpine 3.13-3.15 is supported. macOS 12 Monterey and later: .NET 6.0-7.0.

Supported operating systems and frameworks

	Windows	macOS \| Linux
.NET Framework 1.0 – 4.8	Available in: JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio, standalone, console tool
.NET Core 2.0 – 3.1 .NET 5 – 7	Available in: JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio, standalone, console tool	Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool
Mono 5.10 and later	Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool	Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool Notes: Only 64-bit processes are supported.
Unity 2018.3 and later	Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool	Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool

Windows

macOS | Linux

.NET Framework 1.0 – 4.8

Available in: JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio, standalone, console tool

.NET Core 2.0 – 3.1

.NET 5 – 7

Available in: JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio, standalone, console tool

Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool

Mono 5.10 and later

Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool

Notes:

Only 64-bit processes are supported.

Unity 2018.3 and later

Available in: JetBrains Rider, console tool

Integration with Other Tools

TeamCity

JetBrains TeamCity comes bundled with dotCover Console Runner. Just by enabling the corresponding configuration option you can collect code coverage for your .NET project and then view coverage statistics and detailed coverage reports. The Visual Studio Add-in provided by TeamCity allows connecting to the TeamCity server to fetch coverage snapshots automatically. For more information, see TeamCity Visual Studio Addin.

TypeMock

TypeMock Isolator.NET 6.2 supports integration with dotCover. Coverage analysis is supported in TypeMock unit tests.

NDepend

dotCover can generate coverage reports in the NDepend-compatible format. For more information, see NDepend Coverage Data FAQ: How to get XML Coverage Files from JetBrains DotCover

Last modified: 02 December 2022