dotCover 2.0 Early Access Open

Starting this week, you can download and play with dotCover 2.0 early builds.

Why would you want to do that? Here’s why:

• dotCover 2.0 can be installed into 4 versions of Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 11 Beta (with Visual Studio 11 RTM support to follow as soon as it’s available.)
• dotCover 2.0 bundles a unit test runner. This means, even if a developer doesn’t have ReSharper installed for whatever reason, he/she can still use dotCover for unit test coverage — and of course, for simply running unit tests as well. That said, if dotCover is installed into Visual Studio that also has ReSharper, ReSharper’s implementation of unit test runner is used by default (which you can change at any time.) At this point, dotCover’s own unit test runner supports NUnit and MSTest. If you’re using MSpec or xUnit, you still have to use the ReSharper implementation. However, we’ll be working with plug-in authors to ensure compatibility with dotCover as well.