Dotnet-reportgenerator is not able to find any coverage.cobertura.xml when running inside Gitlab CI pipeline

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I want to generate a single coverage report for my C# project based on this tutorial

When running the following Powershell script locally everything works as expected

dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage";

dotnet tool install -g dotnet-reportgenerator-globaltool;

reportgenerator -reports:'**/coverage.cobertura.xml' -targetdir:'CoverageReports' -reporttypes:'Cobertura';

but when starting a Gitlab CI pipeline with the following configuration

image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:5.0

stages:
  - build
  - unit-tests

build:
  stage: build
  script:
    - dotnet build --output build
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - build

unit-tests:
  stage: unit-tests
  script:
    - |-
      dotnet test --no-build --output build --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage";
      
      dotnet tool install -g dotnet-reportgenerator-globaltool;

      reportgenerator -reports:'**/coverage.cobertura.xml' -targetdir:'CoverageReports' -reporttypes:'Cobertura';
  artifacts:
    reports:
      cobertura: CoverageReports/Cobertura.xml
  dependencies:
    - build

I get the following error

The report file pattern ‘**/coverage.cobertura.xml’ is invalid. No matching files found.

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Does someone know how to fix it? Do I have to specify a target directory?

Here is a repository showing what I have so far. Unfortunately I can’t test the CI on the public Gitlab (I’m working on a self hosted one)

The additional powershell file works as expected when running it locally.

When running a pipeline without the build stage

image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:5.0

stages:
  - unit-tests

unit-tests:
  stage: unit-tests
  script:
    - |-
      dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage";
      
      dotnet tool install -g dotnet-reportgenerator-globaltool;

      reportgenerator -reports:'**/coverage.cobertura.xml' -targetdir:'CoverageReports' -reporttypes:'Cobertura';
  artifacts:
    reports:
      cobertura: CoverageReports/Cobertura.xml

everything works as expected. So it seems the reportgenerator needs to know about the build output (the artifact from the build stage)

Paths I tried for the -reports flag but didn’t work

  • '**/coverage.cobertura.xml'

  • 'build/**/coverage.cobertura.xml'

  • './**/coverage.cobertura.xml'

  • '../**/coverage.cobertura.xml'

  • '*/**/coverage.cobertura.xml'

  • '$CI_PROJECT_DIR/**/coverage.cobertura.xml'

when running ls; and ls build; (the artifact) before running the report generator command the folder structure looks as expected

For ls;

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For ls build;

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but I do not need the build artifact because the coverage.cobertura.xml files shouldn’t exist there. They should be located at

  • ........\temp-20210730\TestProject1\TestResults\380e65f7-48d5-468f-9cbc-550c8e0aeda8\coverage.cobertura.xml

  • ........\temp-20210730\TestProject2\TestResults\c96c55f7-40d3-483e-a136-573615e3a9c3\coverage.cobertura.xml
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@johannestuchel Have you had any further luck getting this working? I gave it a try myself on a fork of your project but was not able to get the reportgenerator running even.

If you have a working example we would like to include it in the documentation. Thanks!

-James H, GitLab Product Manager, Verify:Testing