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Today we added an article to our "How To" section covering what to include in an NCover bug report.

Read "Creating a Good Support Ticket"

Up until recently, we've only marketed NCover through word of mouth and our relationship with our users. That has worked well, but we feel that more developers could benefit from our software, so we decided to release a new advertising campaign. It's important to us that we not only advertise NCover, but also spread knowledge of the benefits of code coverage. While our campaign doesn't directly describe those benefits, we do think it will get coverage on the minds of anyone who views it.

Let us know what you think!

View the Campaign

We recently added a video to the documentation section of the site that outlines how to run NCover and NUnit within Visual Studio by creating an entry on the Tools menu. Check it out, and let us know if you have techniques for working more efficiently with NCover.

Watch the Video

We recently published an article on the Code Project website that covers the basics of NCover and code coverage in general, so felt like it was a perfect fit for the NCover Basics series.

Read "Are you Covered?"

There's a great paper over on the Bullseye website about code coverage analysis. It reviews basic theory behind code coverage, different code coverage metrics, and code coverage best practices. I highly recommend looking it over.

Code Coverage Analysis Paper at Bullseye

Over each of the next several weeks we will be releasing an about the basics of using NCover to analyze code quality. We’ve planned to publish articles showing you how to measure code quality with NUnit and NCoverExplorer ,NUnit and NCover.Console, and with ASP.NET, Selenium, and NCover Console, but if you have any requests for additional topics, we’d be more than happy to cover them. Just send us an email at support@ncover.com referencing the NCover Basics Series and the topic you would like covered, and we’ll try our best to cover that topic.

One of the easiest ways to master NCover is simply to dive into some code and improve tests, so this week we’ll be looking at improving the test quality for an open source project, Json.NET, which is available on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/Json. Json.NET is a tool for reading and writing JSON from .NET, and includes a JsonSerializer for easily serializing .NET objects into Json.

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Today we updated the site to include some examples of our HTML reports. We included reports for the great Lucene.NET, log4net, and Json.NET libraries.

Example HTML Reports.