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Introduction to Cover Reports

What is Cover Reports?

Diffblue Cover Reports provides a variety of ways to visualise an application based on information derived from Diffblue Cover.

Cover Reports allows your team to identify gaps in your application’s coverage and the reasons for those gaps. This means development can be targeted in those areas, which leads to improved coverage, improved application code and lower risk.

This is illustrated with several common scenarios.

Available with Cover CLI

Cover Reports is available for customers using the Diffblue Cover CLI. Please contact your account manager to ask for access to Cover Reports.

If you are not yet using the Cover CLI, you can start a free trial.

Prerequisites

See here for the full prerequisites for Cover Reports.

Installation

Installation is easy and can be done in just a few steps as described here.

Adding projects to Cover Reports

Adding a project is done by using the Cover CLI as described here.

Viewing projects

Having added a project, it can be viewed using a web browser and traversed using the navigation menu.

There are several dashboards to chose from depending on your scenario.

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