What is "XPlat Code Coverage"

[stricq]

I looked through the documentation and I could not anyplace that explains what "XPlat Code Coverage" is or even why it was needed.

[petli]

As I understand it it is just how to tell the underlying vstest driver to activate coverlet.collector to collect coverage information during test runs. It is not something that's designed by Coverlet, but by vstest. There's full documentation on how coverlet interacts with vstest on this page: https://github.com/coverlet-coverage/coverlet/blob/master/Documentation/VSTestIntegration.md

[MarcoRossignoli]

Yep @petli is correct "XPlat Code Coverage" is handled by VSTest plat to inject our collectors.

Take a look here https://github.com/microsoft/vstest/blob/master/src/vstest.console/Processors/CollectArgumentProcessor.cs#L253

[voroninp]

Is there any alias or another way to reference collector with something what does not contain spaces?

I've run into a TC's issue.

[MarcoRossignoli]

Unfortunately not, you should have a way to escape the "

[voroninp]

Single quotes are also working!

[voroninp]

Ah, no =( They do not. But runsettings file does ;-) Anyway, there's a way to get what I need.