Ever wondered whether you actually need all that code in your project? How about ensuring that your scenarios are well defined and don't cross over into each other? Or simply whether a particular scenario has indeed been addressed by the current solution codebase?

All of these questions are answered in the rich source of information generated by the Readify Scenario Coverage Analyser for TFS. The Scenario Coverage Analyser is a custom MSBuild task which enables users to correlate code coverage information with Scenarios and other work items from Team Foundation Server.

Because it's an MSBuild task, the Scenario Coverage Analyser can be configured to run as part of your normal build process, automatically generating its Traceability Matrix report every time you build the solution. As a result, project managers and team leads can easily see a breakdown of the work items that map to a given unit test, and code coverage information for a specific scenario.

Figure 1: An example of the report generated by the Scenario Coverage Analyser

The Scenario Coverage Analyser is currently in beta, and although we are using it on a number of projects internally it is to be considered a proof-of-concept. However, it's just too good not to share, so we're providing the latest version of the Scenario Coverage Analyser for download on this page and will keep the information here up to date.

Download the Latest Release

ScenarioCoverageAnalyser - 1.0.0.0.ZIP

About the Developer

Paul Stovell, one of our amazing Senior Developers who is also an MVP (Client Application Development), built this tool. You can check out up to the minute information on this project and others he is working on over at his blog: http://www.paulstovell.net/.