Question - Branch Coverage and supported 'dotnet-coverage collect' formats (xml vs. cobertura)?

[pmehradnia]

dotnet-coverage collect has the following three format options (with "--output-format"):

• coverage
• xml
• cobertura

From some testing, it appears that Branch Coverage* is only produced with the cobertura option (not xml). Is there an option to enable Branch Coverage for the xml format, or is it exclusive to cobertura format?

Thanks in advance.

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*Note: For reference, example file showing branch coverage data (from ~\codecoverage\samples\Algorithms\scenarios\scenario01\example.report.cobertura.xml)

[fhnaseer]

Branch coverage is specific to cobertura format. In xml/coverage format there is block coverage. If all blocks are not covered for a line, line coverage status will be partially covered.

[pmehradnia]

Branch coverage is specific to cobertura format. In xml/coverage format there is block coverage. If all blocks are not covered for a line, line coverage status will be partially covered.

Thank you for your reply. Is this information specified on a documentation somewhere, as far as you know, for the xml or coverage formats?

[fhnaseer]

There is no official documentation about coverage and xml format. They both contain same data (one is in xml, other not).

[pmehradnia]

There is no official documentation about coverage and xml format. They both contain same data (one is in xml, other not).

Got it - so the only format which has the branch coverage would be cobertura. Thanks for your help.