Cannot exclude tests in runsettings when using VSTest integration driver

Hi! We are using the VSTest integration driver (v1.2.0) to successfully generate a coverage.covertura.xml. Integrated it with MS DevOps, everything looks great. Now we want to exclude some files from our test report and we can’t seem to get it to work.

We are running as follows: dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage" --settings .\coverlet.runsettings and dotnet test --settings .\coverlet.runsettings.

We’ve tried many runsettings file configuration, but in its simplest form we think something like this should work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<RunSettings>
<DataCollectionRunSettings>
<DataCollectors>
<DataCollector friendlyName="XPlat Code Coverage">
<Configuration>
<Format>cobertura</Format>
<Exclude>[*]*</Exclude>
</Configuration>
</DataCollector>
</DataCollectors>
</DataCollectionRunSettings>
</RunSettings>

We have gotten file exclusion to work with the MSBuild integration driver, using the following command: dotnet test /p:CollectCoverage=true /p:Exclude="[*]*"

[MarcoRossignoli]

Hi @mrcoymeeks you should add namespaces with a comma , like in the documentation sample https://github.com/coverlet-coverage/coverlet/blob/master/Documentation/VSTestIntegration.md

...
 <Exclude>[coverlet.*.tests?]*,[*]Coverlet.Core*</Exclude> <!-- [Assembly-Filter]Type-Filter -->
 <Include>[coverlet.*]*,[*]Coverlet.Core*</Include> <!-- [Assembly-Filter]Type-Filter -->
...

[civspan]

Thank you for your prompt response Marco. We added the logging flag and the exclusion started working as expected right away. Very strange, but most welcome! I’m sure we did something wrong before but I have no idea what. I’ll close this for now and if we detect the issue again I’ll post it here.

Thanks again!