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Considerations
How you make use of Cover Reports will clearly depend on many factors. As a Cover Reports User, consider the following when deploying and using Cover Reports. You may also wish to discuss these with your Cover Reports Administrator (deployment) and Cover Reports Contributors (reports bundles), as appropriate.
When deploying Cover Reports, consider the following features:
- Authentication: By default, any Diffblue Cover user can upload reports bundles to Cover Reports. However, you may want to restrict and/or secure access by enabling upload authentication. For example, you may want to restrict upload to your CI processes only, so that the data and upload timings are consistent. If upload authentication is enabled, all uploads will need to use the defined username and password when uploading reports bundles.
- Telemetry: Cover CLI and Cover Plugin both capture anonymous usage data to help improve Cover services and features. This data can also be sent to your Cover Reports instance by enabling the Cover Reports endpoint for telemetry data, allowing you to monitor Diffblue Cover usage across your organization.
When generating, naming, and uploading reports bundles, consider the following:
- Generate & Upload - Timing: You can generate and upload reports bundles before, during, and after code development. For consistency, you may wish to define specific schedules and you may also find it useful to generate and upload reports for your project before you run
dcover createon the project for the first time (useful for setting a coverage baseline). - Naming Conventions: The
--projectand--namearguments are used to structure the uploaded data within Cover Reports. Diffblue recommends that you select an appropriate and consistent naming convention for these to help with data visualization in the Cover Reports UI. - Cover CLI and/or Cover Pipeline: Reports bundles can be uploaded using Cover CLI (as part of a developer's process) and/or Cover Pipeline (as part of a CI workflow/pipeline). As an organization you may want to consider whether you use one method for upload, or both. If you're not sure or have concerns, you could use different naming conventions for the uploads to separate the data within the Cover Reports UI.
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