JUnitReport Task

JUnitReport

Merge the individual XML files generated by the JUnit task and eventually apply a stylesheet on the resulting merged document to provide a browsable report of the testcases results.

Note: This task depends on external libraries not included in the Apache Ant distribution. See Library Dependencies for more information.

Requirements

The task needs Apache Xalan 2.4.1+ or Xalan XSLTC (JDK 1.4 contains a version of Xalan-J 2.x while JDK 1.5 ships with a version of XSLTC). Starting from JDK 1.4.2-01 it ships with a bundled Xalan-J 2.4.1+, meaning that JDK version prior to 1.4.2-01 won't work out of the box. The table below summarize the compatibility status.

Xalan	Sun JDK Bundle	Status
2.4.1+	JDK 1.4.2-01+	OK
XSLTC	JDK 1.5.x	OK
2.x	JDK 1.4.x	DEPRECATED Use ${ant.home}/etc/junit-frames-xalan1.xsl Upgrade Xalan using the JDK endorsement mechanism

With Ant 1.6.2 we had to decide between supporting Xalan-J 1/Xalan J 2.4.1- and Xalan 2.4.1+/XSLTC, since there was no way to support both couples at the same time.

With Ant 1.7 we had to drop support Xalan-J 1, since Xalan-J 1 has not available anymore for quite some time.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
tofile	The name of the XML file that will aggregate all individual XML testsuite previously generated by the JUnit task.	No. Default to TESTS-TestSuites.xml
todir	The directory where should be written the file resulting from the individual XML testsuite aggregation.	No. Default to current directory

Nested Elements

fileset

junitreport collects individual xml files generated by the JUnit task using the nested <FileSet> element.

report

Generate a browsable report based on the document created by the merge.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
format	The format of the generated report. Must be "noframes" or "frames".	No, default to "frames"
styledir	The directory where the stylesheets are defined. They must be conforming to the following conventions: frames format: the stylesheet must be named junit-frames.xsl. noframes format: the stylesheet must be named junit-noframes.xsl.	No. Default to embedded stylesheets.
todir	The directory where the files resulting from the transformation should be written to.	No. Default to current directory

Ant assumes the following concerning the frames and noframes formats :

The frames format uses a stylesheet which is generating output only by redirecting.

The noframes format does not use redirecting and generates one file called junit-noframes.html.

Custom versions of junit-frames.xsl or junit-noframes.xsl must adhere to the above conventions.

Nested Element of the report tag

param

Since Ant 1.7the report tag supports nested param tags. These tags can pass XSL parameters to the stylesheet.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
name	Name of the XSL parameter	Yes
expression	Text value to be placed into the param. Was originally intended to be an XSL expression.	Yes
if	The param will only be passed if this property is set.	No
unless	The param will not be passed if this property is set.	No

The built-in stylesheets support the following parameters:

XSL-Parameter	Description	Required
TITLE	Title used in <title> and <h1> tags	No. Defaults to Unit Test Results.

Example of report

<junitreport todir="./reports">
  <fileset dir="./reports">
    <include name="TEST-*.xml"/>
  </fileset>
  <report format="frames" todir="./report/html"/>
</junitreport>

would generate a TESTS-TestSuites.xml file in the directory reports and generate the default framed report in the directory report/html.

Example of report with xsl params

<junitreport todir="${outputdir}">
    <fileset dir="${jrdir}">
        <include name="TEST-*.xml"/>
    </fileset>
    <report todir="${outputdir}/html"
        styledir="junitreport"
        format="frames">
        <param name="key1" expression="value1"/>
        <param name="key2" expression="value2"/>
    </report>
</junitreport>

This example requires a file called junitreport/junit-frames.xsl. The XSL parameters key1 and key2 will be passed to the XSL transformation.