Code coverage calculates the percentage of code that is covered by automated (unit) tests. And unit tests are important to ensure ongoing code quality and predictability in our software. Code coverage reports help investigate how well our software development is doing by showing us that percentage. But we know all this right? Tests are important, so test coverage is also
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The Angular CLI makes our lives a lot easier by scaffolding our projects and generating a lot of boilerplate code and this code usually conforms to the Angular Style guide found here https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/style-guide.html. But we also need to make sure our code stays readable, functional and maintainable and with entire teams working on Angular applications, code reviews are not the
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In a previous post we figured out how we could work with SonarQube Quality Gates in a JavaScript build on VSTS. For regular VSTS builds (based on MSBuild that is) Sonar provides an excellent extension that enables several goodies including a “Publish Quality Gate Result” build task. Unfortunately this task requires MSBuild to function correctly and our usual client side/
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SonarQube includes the concept of quality gates and these gates allow you to answer questions about the quality of the code being analyzed. They come as sets of Boolean conditions and can be based on the usual Sonar metrics including blocker issues, code coverage on new code, reliability rating, etc. Here are the default settings: More info here: https://blog.sonarsource.com/quality-gates-shall-your-projects-pass Based
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Many to choose from There are quite a few options for running container workloads today, but they come with many different configurations. Especially between different vendors. And these vendors are working hard in this area to provide us with even more products and services to choose from. So many, that choosing one over the other can feel a bit overwhelming.
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TL;DR: JavaScript Unit Testing with VSTS using real browsers. We would like to run JavaScript unit tests; And we prefer a real browser for this, so no PhantomJS or equivalent; And run our tests from a Visual Studio Team Services build; VSTS hosted build agents don’t have Chrome or Firefox installed; So things break; We fix this by providing a
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In a previous post we met SonarTS, the first official static code analyzer for TypeScript by SonarSource. That post focused on getting SonarQube and TypeScript up and running. Now we are ready to extend on that scenario by adding code coverage metrics to our reports. Couple of things we need to get this to work: A unit test, of course,
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