MSBuild SonarQube Runner: “Failed to locate the code coverage command line tool” still with version 1.0.1

Question

I am trying to use MSBuild SonarQube Runner to have my TFS-builds run the Sonar analysis.

I have configured the tool to work with our sonar Server according to this manual. Actually I can start an analysis by building manually via console on my local machine. Additionally, I installed the tool on our build server and when I run it via Visual Studio, I’ll get the error "Failed to locate the code coverage command line tool".

I already found out that the CodeCoverage.exe is needed, but only given with installing an Enterprise version of Visual Studio on the server. I also read that in version 1.0.1, this issue should be fixed (see here and in the changelog this is also mentioned as fixed).

I exchanged the old MSBuild SonarQube Runner with the version 1.0.1, but with building on the TFS in Visual Studio and adding the command lines to run MSBuild SonarQube Runner v1.0.1, I still get the error "Failed to locate the code coverage command line tool".

I also have Visual Studio 2015 Professional installed on the build mashine.

How can I fix this issue without needing an Enterprise version of Visual Studio providing the CodeCoverage.exe?

Answer 1

Code Coverage still requires Visual Studio Enterprise in the 2015 version (see this page).

The bug you referred to fixed an issue in version 1.0 that meant that analysis would fail if the code coverage tool could not be found. Analysis will no longer fail if the code coverage tool was not found, but it doesn't change the requirement to have to VS Enterprise installed if you want to use the Microsoft code coverage tools.