How to publish results using dotnet test command

Question

I have a test project written in dotnet core. This need to publish the results in an XML or HTML format. Is there a way I can publish the results to a particular directory using the same command?
--result-directory is not working for me

Answer 1

You can see all the dotnet test options by executing dotnet test --help. One of the options is -l, --logger, which gives some great information:

Specify a logger for test results. Examples: Log in trx format using a unqiue file name: --logger trx Log in trx format using the specified file name: --logger "trx;LogFileName=<TestResults.trx>" More info on logger arguments support:https://aka.ms/vstest-report 

That support link https://aka.ms/vstest-report, has the full information.

So to answer your specific question, you can say

dotnet test -l:trx;LogFileName=C:\temp\TestOutput.xml

To publish the results to a particular directory.

Another option is setting MSBuild properties in your test.csproj:

<PropertyGroup>   <VSTestLogger>trx</VSTestLogger>   <VSTestResultsDirectory>C:\temp</VSTestResultsDirectory> </PropertyGroup> 

Which tells the logger to put the file in the C:\temp directory.

Answer 2

After stumbling on the same problem (I wanted to publish test results in JUnit format), I ended up finding the JUnitTestLogger NuGet package.

It was a matter of installing it:

dotnet add package JUnitTestLogger --version 1.1.0 

And then running the tests as:

dotnet test --logger "junit;LogFilePath=path/to/your/test/results.xml"