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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 6292

JUnit & Ant : How to show detailed error message on the screen?

I put up an Ant project which includes a unit test using JUnit.

The test target is as:

<target name="test">
    <mkdir dir="target/test/reports"/>
    <junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
        <classpath>
            <pathelement location="${test.classes.dir}"/>
            <pathelement location="${test.junit.jar}" />
            <pathelement path="${classes.dir}"/>
            <pathelement path="${java.class.path}"/>
        </classpath>
        <formatter type="plain"/>

        <batchtest fork="yes" todir="${test.reports.dir}">
            <fileset dir="${test.src.dir}">
                <include name="**/*Test*.java"/>
            </fileset>
        </batchtest>
    </junit>
</target>

When I run this test, it show on the screen only the summary of the test like:

Buildfile: F:\test\build.xml

test:
    [junit] Running com.mycompany.myproject.myTest
    [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.013 sec
    [junit] Running com.mycompany.myproject.myTest1
    [junit] Tests run: 3, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.018 sec

BUILD FAILED
F:\test\build.xml:30: Test com.mycompany.myproject.myTest1 failed

Total time: 1 second

Is there anyway I can tell JUnit or Ant to display the detailed result on the screen?

Also, if I want to write something in the Unit test to the screen, how can I do this? I tried to insert System.out.println() in the test but it does not display anything on the screen.

Many thanks.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6880

Answers (5)

Gopi
Gopi

Reputation: 939

<batchtest fork="yes" todir="${junit.report.dir}">
   <formatter type="xml" />
      <fileset dir="${application.build.stage.java.class.dir}">
        <include name="**/*Test.class" />
</fileset>
</batchtest>

You can use this in your build.xml to generate the reports as html files.

Upvotes: 0

Agust&#237;n
Agust&#237;n

Reputation: 1569

Also, if you want to print something to the screen, just use

<echo message="My message..." />

Upvotes: 0

Jayan
Jayan

Reputation: 18459

IMHO, you are solving the wrong problem.

The junit results are collected and sitting "${test.reports.dir}" to be 'seen' by you. Ant has task that could help you in getting an HTML report

Introduce a target to generate html from the collected data (they are XML files)

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

Upvotes: 2

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 11090

change printsummary value to withOutAndErr, that will cause JUnit to print System.out and System.err text

Upvotes: 2

Dave Newton
Dave Newton

Reputation: 160171

Set the showOutput flag to true.

What are you trying to accomplish via the S.o.p in the middle of a test?

Upvotes: 3

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