Empty Junit reports from ant

Question

I am trying to use ant to run junit tests and generate reports. I am able to successfully run the tests but the report files are empty.

What am I doing wrong ?

This is my build.xml :

<project name="JunitTest" default="test" basedir="."> 
    <property name="testdir" location="." /> 
    <property name="srcdir" location="." /> 
    <property name="full-compile" value="true" /> 
    <property name="test.reports" value="./reports" />

    <path id="classpath.base"/>
    <path id="classpath.test">

    <pathelement location="${testdir}" />
    <pathelement location="${srcdir}" />

    <path refid="classpath.base" />

    </path> 

    <target name="clean" >
        <delete verbose="${full-compile}"> 
            <fileset dir="${testdir}" includes="**/*.class" />
        </delete> `
    </target>

    <target name="compile" depends="clean">
        <javac srcdir="${srcdir}" destdir="${testdir}" verbose="${full-compile}" >
            <classpath refid="classpath.test"/>
        </javac>
    </target>

    <target name="test" depends="compile">
        <junit>
            <classpath refid="classpath.test" />
            <formatter type="brief" usefile="false" />
            <test name="com.tests.nav1" />
        </junit>

        <junitreport todir="${test.reports}">
            <fileset dir="${test.reports}">
                <include name="TEST-*.xml" />
            </fileset>
            <report todir="${test.reports}" />
        </junitreport>
    </target>

</project>

and this is the output on the console :

[junit] Using CLASSPATH C:\eclipse\eclipse-java-helios-SR1-win32\eclipse\JunitWS\SeleniumTraining\src;C:\jars\junit.jar;C:\ant\lib\ant-launcher.jar;C:\ant\lib\ant.jar;C:\ant\lib\ant-junit.jar;C:\ant\lib\ant-junit4.jar 
[junit] Testsuite: com.tests.nav1 
[junit] Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 48.187 sec 
[junit] ------------- Standard Output --------------- 
[junit] testnav2 
[junit] ------------- ---------------- --------------- 
[junitreport] Using class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.TraXLiaison 
[junitreport] Processing C:\eclipse\eclipse-java-helios-SR1-win32\eclipse\JunitWS\SeleniumTraining\src\reports\TESTS-TestSuites.xml to C:\Users\pmahajan\AppData\Local\Temp\null236099757 
[junitreport] Loading stylesheet jar:file:/C:/ant/lib/ant-junit.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/xsl/junit-frames.xsl 
[junitreport] Transform time: 330ms 
[junitreport] Deleting: C:\Users\pmahajan\AppData\Local\Temp\null236099757 

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 49 seconds

Answer 1

If you look at the ant snippet, there are a few issues:

• You have set usefile=false, which means no output file is created
• You have set formatter type=brief, which will print detailed information only for failed tests
• You need to also specify the todir - the folder where the report has to go in the <test> tag - the default is current folder. This should match the folder you are using in <junitreport> task.

You can try with the following updated <junit> section...

    <junit>
        <classpath refid="classpath.test" />
        <formatter type="xml"/>
        <test name="com.tests.nav1" todir="${test.reports}"/>
    </junit>

Answer 2

   1 <target name="test" depends="compile">
   2     <junit>
   3         <classpath refid="classpath.test" />
   4         <formatter type="brief" usefile="false" />
   5         <test name="com.tests.nav1" />
   6     </junit>

   7     <junitreport todir="${test.reports}">
   8         <fileset dir="${test.reports}">
   9             <include name="TEST-*.xml" />
   10         </fileset>
   11         <report todir="${test.reports}" />
   12     </junitreport>
   13 </target>

The above segment of your coded needs following changes.

1. You have to specify the to directory option in the 5th line( for example todir = ${data.reports} )
2. In the 8th line the directory specified must me data.reports.
3. The 11th line must contain the option format with the value frames (format="frames").