Line coverage fails for closing brace in tests expecting exceptions

For a test like:

[TestMethod]
[ExpectedException(typeof(Exception))]
public void SomeTest()
{
   ThrowsException();
} // Coverage fails for this line

AxoCover will show that the closing brace is not covered (as the comment shows).

Although it is technically correct (the line will never be reached for any successful test), I would like to, at least, be able to indicate that coverage for this line should be ignored as I am targeting a 100% coverage.

[axodox]

To be honest I agree with the current result, but for sure you should report this on the OpenCover project’s issue board as AxoCover displays OpenCover results.

Also some testing tips:

• You should check the coverage of the application under test, not your test code. The coverage of the tests by themselves is not really relevant in most cases - well if you really have much test code which never runs, then you might need to refactor something.
• Generally you should not aim to have 100% coverage as in most cases that has marginal benefit over let’s say 70% or 85% coverage.
• It is more important to make your tests are really doing their job, e.g. if you change what your code does in a significant way, they fail - so you be sure they prevent regressions. See mutation testing.

[sawilde]

Ah well - it seems the sequence point for the line also encapsulates the end brace