TestNG XSLT Report Generation

Reports are vital part of any automation testing and with Selenium+TestNG framework we have the default TestNG reports, which some consider to be a little out of date... to over come this, we have a add on report for TestNG know as TestNG-XSLT which gives good graphical representation of the generated report.

TestNG-xslt generates user friendly reports using the TestNG results output (testng-results.xml). Its uses the pure XSL for report generation and Saxon as an XSL2.0 implementation.


For generating testng-xslt report for your project do the following:
1. Download the testng-xslt from
     http://code.google.com/p/testng-xslt/
2. Unzip and copy the testng-results.xsl from the testng-xslt folder(testng-xslt-1.1\src\main\resources) to your own project folder.
3. Now copy the saxon library from (testng-xslt-1.1\lib\saxon-8.7.jar)to your project lib folder.
4. Modify your build.xml of ant and add the following target to it.

<project name="test" basedir=".">
    <property name="LIB" value="${basedir}/libs" />
    <property name="BIN" value="${basedir}/bin" />
    <path id="master-classpath">
            <pathelement location="${BIN}" />
            <fileset dir="${LIB}">
                <include name="**/*.jar" />
            </fileset>
        </path>
    <target name="testng-xslt-report">
        <delete dir="${basedir}/testng-xslt">
        </delete>
        <mkdir dir="${basedir}/testng-xslt">
        </mkdir>
        <xslt in="${basedir}/test-output/testng-results.xml" style="${basedir}/testng-results.xsl" out="${basedir}/testng-xslt/index.html">
            <param expression="${basedir}/testng-xslt/" name="testNgXslt.outputDir" />

            <param expression="true" name="testNgXslt.sortTestCaseLinks" />

            <param expression="FAIL,SKIP,PASS,CONF,BY_CLASS" name="testNgXslt.testDetailsFilter" />

            <param expression="true" name="testNgXslt.showRuntimeTotals" />

            <classpath refid="master-classpath">
            </classpath>
        </xslt>
    </target>
</project>

You need to provide the testng-xslt stylesheet the TestNG results xml(testng-results.xml) , the path to the style sheet testng-results.xsl and the output index.html path.

Also dont forget to add the saxon library to your target classpath else you will get an error. In my case it is the master-classpath.

Now run the ant target for report generation (in this case "testng-xslt-report") and check the ouput folder configured by you for testng-xslt report.