Unable to get code coverage using VSPerfCmd and VSInstr for a web application hosted on IIS

Question

Hi,

  I have a web application with two binaries that is hosted as a virtual directory on IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista.  I tried the following steps as instructed in VS team system blogs but to no avail.

STEPS for code coverage:

• vsperfclrenv /globaltraceon
• reboot
• vsinstr /COVERAGE [assembly]
• vsperfcmd /START:COVERAGE /OUTPUT:[ouputfile].coverage /CS /USER:"[ASP.NET worker process user]"
• vsperfcmd /ATTACH:[w3wp process id]
• Run the test scenario against the web application
• vsperfcmd /DETACH
• iisreset /STOP
• vsperfcmd -SHUTDOWN

I get an empty code coverage file. When I open the .coverage file in VS 2008, I find no coverage data. I get the message 'Empty Results generated: none of the instrumented binaries were used...'

But, when I host the web application on the VS dev server and run the tests, I can get the code coverage results.

Also after I launch VSPerfCmd, I checked the status using vsperfcmd /status.   I found that it was not profiling\monitoring w3wp.exe process for code coverage. I get the following report

Microsoft (R) VSPerf Command Version 9.0.21022 x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.


Process and Thread Status
============================================================
Output File Name            : C:\ResultsFolder\CCresults.Coverage
Collection mode             : COVERAGE
Maximum Processes           : 64
Maximum Threads             : 256
Number of Buffers           : 258
Size of Buffers             : 65536
============================================================
Maximum Number of Processes : 64
Number of Active Processes  : 0
Global Start/Stop Count     : 1
Global Suspend/Resume Count : 0
============================================================
Users with access rights to monitor:
UserName (SID)
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (S-1-5-18)
BUILTIN\Administrators (S-1-5-32-544)



Can someone please tell me if I am doing something wrong or am I missing a setting ?

Answer 1

Hello,

Do you find a solution because I'm having same problems.


Thanks
Annie

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