How to exclude certain lines by regex in runsettings file

Haowen Liu 0 Reputation points
2023-02-10T03:59:55.8033333+00:00

I have many asserts scattered around the codebase to check for invalid situations. I want to exclude them in code coverage reports but I have not figured out how to do so. In gcovr I can do something like --exclude-lines-by-pattern '.*assert.*'.

It would be nice if runsettings support something like:

<Lines>
  <Exclude>
    <Line>.*assert.*</Line>
  </Exclude>
</Lines>
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  1. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 29,351 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2023-02-10T08:14:56.79+00:00

    Hello @Haowen Liu ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

    The .runsettings file doesn’t support excluding one specific line in code coverage. This document: Include or exclude assemblies and members lists what you can exclude in a .runsettings file, by using XML elements and regular expressions.

    But the functions/methods can be excluded in code coverage. There are two ways: one is using <Exclude> and <Function> elements, the other is using ExcludeFromCodeCoverage attribute. Perhaps you can consider writing the specific lines to one function and exclude this function.

    Besides, I recommend submitting a suggestion ticket on our Developer Community for this feature.

    Happy coding.

    Best Regards,

    Tianyu

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