cross-platform opencover for .net core on Linux/MacOS

[sawilde]

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My Framework

• .NET Core 1.*
• Something else

My Environment

• Linux
• MacOS

I have already...

• reviewed the current issues to check that the issue isn't already known.

My issue is related to (check only those which apply):

• feature request

Expected Behavior

Run OpenCover on Linux or Mac OS

[sawilde]

Also wanted by the .net core team - https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/17107
But also dependant on the work porting the profiling API to .net core - https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/445

[pms1969]

@sawilde How's this looking. We're just about to convert our codebase to dotnetcore2.0, and code coverage will be an important part of our build, so looking around, OpenCover looks a good choice for us.

I appreciate it might take a bit of work, and happy to do what I can to help and make this work for linux. Any pointers to get me started?

[sawilde]

@pms1969, as far as I know, the API has not yet been created/released for those platforms to allow the OpenCover work to even start.

[pms1969]

Ok, that's a shame. I'll keep an eye out for it, and dig around the or release repos.. is it a native app, or just a .net lib?

[johnnyasantoss]

Is this already working on Linux?
I saw that the profiler is already ported to it.
Profiler Status

[sawilde]

@johnnyasantoss no-one is working on a linux implementation yet AFAIK - not sure when that will happen.

[FastNinja]

someone this guy managed to build a workaround - we tested and it measured code coverage on Linux for a mid size production DotNet cover project.
https://github.com/lucaslorentz/minicover
It is not a standard Microsoft way - more like a hack/workaround. but it works!

[andrericardo]

Another project for "Cross platform code coverage library for .NET Core"

https://github.com/tonerdo/coverlet

[SteveGilham]

Yet another https://github.com/SteveGilham/altcover

[giorgiozoppi]

Ok back in town to help, is there anyother willing to help on this. Just to know?

[zaiboot]

How can I help?