ReportNG Report

ReportNG is Open Source software, free to download and use subject to the terms of the Apache Software Licence, Version 2.0.

Reportdetail page.

ReportNG is a simple HTML reporting plug-in for the TestNG unit-testing framework. It is intended as a replacement for the default TestNG HTML report. The default report is comprehensive but is not so easy to understand at-a-glance. ReportNG provides a simple, colour-coded view of the test results.

ReportNG generates 100% valid XHTML 1.0 files. The output can be customised by over-riding the default stylesheet with your own CSS file.

Since version 0.9.0, ReportNG also includes a second reporter that produces JUnit format XML output. This enables TestNG to integrate with tools, such as Hudson, that understand these XML files. This is an alternative to the JUnit XML reporter that is provided with TestNG. The ReportNG implementation maps each test class to a single <testsuite> element, resulting in one XML file per test class. This is different from the approach taken by the core TestNG implementation. The ReportNG version of the JUnit reporter ignores TestNG's notion of suites to produce output that is closer to what you would get if you were using JUnit.

The current version is 1.1.4, which has been tested with TestNG 6.2 (it should work with any version of TestNG after 5.0, but this has not been tested).

Report overview page.

SampleReports

A very basic sample report with some test failures. This report demonstrates most of the features of the reporter.

The same report with a custom stylesheet.

How to use ReportNG

Apache Ant

To use the reporting plug-in, set the listeners attribute of the testng element in your Ant build file. This attribute takes a comma-separated list of reporter class names. The class names for the ReportNG reporters are:

    org.uncommons.reportng.HTMLReporter

    org.uncommons.reportng.JUnitXMLReporter

You may also want to disable the default TestNG reporters by setting the useDefaultListeners attribute to "false".

Your Ant task will probably look something like this:

    <testng classpathref="test-path"

            outputdir="${test-results.dir}"

            haltonfailure="true"

            useDefaultListeners="false"

            listeners="org.uncommons.reportng.HTMLReporter,org.uncommons.reportng.JUnitXMLReporter">

      <xmlfileset dir="." includes="testng.xml"/>

      <sysproperty key="org.uncommons.reportng.title" value="My Test Report"/>

    </testng>

The reportng-1.1.4.jar and velocity-dep-1.4.jar files must be included in the classpath used to run the tests.

Other Build Systems

If you are using the command line, an IDE plug-in or some other build system, please refer to the TestNG documentation to find out how to register custom listeners/reporters.

Supported System Properties

The following optional system properties can be set (via nested <sysproperty> elements within the <testng> element) in order to customise the report output:

org.uncommons.reportng.coverage-report

A relative or absolute URL that links to a test coverage report.

org.uncommons.reportng.escape-output

Used to turn off escaping for log output in the reports (not recommended). The default is for output to be escaped, since this prevents characters such as '<' and '&' from causing mark-up problems. If escaping is turned off, then log text is included as raw HTML/XML, which allows for the insertion of hyperlinks and other nasty hacks.

org.uncommons.reportng.failures-only

Defaults to "false". If set to "true", the generated report will not list successful tests.

org.uncommons.reportng.frames

Defaults to "true". If set to "false", generates the HTML report without using a frameset. No navigation page is generated and the overview page becomes the index page.

org.uncommons.reportng.locale

Over-rides the default locale for localised messages in generated reports. If not specified, the JVM default locale is used. If there are no translations available for the selected locale the default English messages are used instead. This property should be set to an ISO language code (e.g. "en" or "fr") or to an ISO language code and an ISO country code separated by an underscore (e.g. "en_US" or "fr_CA"). org.uncommons.reportng.show-expected-exceptions

Set to "true" or "false" to specify whether the stack-traces of expected exceptions should be included in the output for passed test cases. The default is "false" because the presence of stack-traces for successful tests may be confusing.

org.uncommons.reportng.stylesheet

The path to a custom CSS file that over-rides some or all of the default styles used by the HTMLReporter. This allows the appearance of reports to be customised. See the default stylesheet for the classes and selectors that can be styled. For an example, see this version of the sample report, which uses the bundled hudsonesque.css file to customise the report's appearance.

org.uncommons.reportng.title

Used to over-ride the report title.

org.uncommons.reportng.xml-dialect

Controls the XML generated by JUnitXMLReporter. If set to "testng" (the default), then skipped tests appear as "skipped" in the XML. This is suitable for use with tools such as Hudson that understand the TestNG dialect of the XML format. Other tools, such as Ant's junitreport task, do not have a notion of skipped tests. For these tools the dialect can be set to "junit" and skipped tests will be marked as failures.