Update documentation for excluding source files from code coverage

I have problems with excluding source files from code coverage.

Here is my file structure: App.UnitTests – runsettings.xml, <other irrelavant files> App – obj, < project files >

I want to exclude from code coverage the obj folder which is located inside the App folder. So I have navigated in the terminal to App.UnitTests folder and executed this command:

dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage" --settings runsettings.xml

Here is my runsettings.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<RunSettings>
  <DataCollectionRunSettings>
    <DataCollectors>
      <DataCollector friendlyName="XPlat code coverage">
        <Configuration>
          <Format>cobertura</Format>
          <ExcludeByFile>../obj/**/*,</ExcludeByFile>
        </Configuration>
      </DataCollector>
    </DataCollectors>
  </DataCollectionRunSettings>
</RunSettings>

Unfortunately this is not working. The code coverage is including files in obj folder. Why is this happening? I will be glad for any help.

[Mikilll94]

@MarcoRossignoli Ok. Thanks for the response. Yeah, the docs need to be updated because they are very misleading, i.e. here:

https://github.com/tonerdo/coverlet/blob/master/Documentation/VSTestIntegration.md https://github.com/tonerdo/coverlet/blob/master/Documentation/MSBuildIntegration.md#excluding-from-coverage

And the docs even explicitly says:

Use absolute or relative paths (relative to the project directory)

So since the relative path is not working, right now I am using this filter:

**/obj/**/*

This filter excludes all files in the obj folder from code coverage.

[MarcoRossignoli]

I’ll keep this open until doc fix. There was a bug in first implementation, we fixed code but not documentation 🤔