Spec. for JUnit XML Output [closed]

Asked 14/1, 2009 at 10:33 Answered 7/2, 2011 at 20:17

Where can I find the specification of JUnit's XML output. My goal is to write a UnitTest++ XML reporter which produced JUnit like output.

See: "Unable to get hudson to parse JUnit test output XML" and "Hudson, C++ and UnitTest++"

Seniority answered 14/1, 2009 at 10:33 Comment(5)

Could you provide some more information, which output do you mean? Probably an example or instruction how to get such an ouput? Thanks! – Cistaceous 16/1, 2009 at 6:59

Is it for JUnit 4.x? Which TestRunner do you use? – Cistaceous 6/5, 2009 at 7:55

if you had the time to write an XML reporter for UnitTest++, I would be interested if you can share it. – Borroff 8/11, 2010 at 16:57

I'm surprised to hear that seeking a specification or standard "tend[s] to attract opinionated answers ...". I can understand why discussion of a spec or standard would create such problems, but a spec itself is simply a concrete fact. Either it exists or it doesn't, and an answerer either knows where it exists or not. Given the importance of specs and standards in helping modern software -- the most complex artifacts people have ever built -- interoperate, I think that the SO guidelines should be altered to allow these types of questions. – Teage 19/10, 2016 at 17:40

Whoever closed that ticket didn't understand the question, yet decided to take inappropriate actions which lowered again the quality of this website content, even though that probably wasn't his goal. – Bice 31/8, 2023 at 17:23

You can find an XSD based on the code in Apache Ant 1.8.2 at https://github.com/windyroad/JUnit-Schema

Platypus answered 7/2, 2011 at 20:17 Comment(4)

See my commentary at windyroad.zendesk.com/entries/… for pieces missing from this XSD. – Oak 23/4, 2014 at 20:14

bringing the comment on-site, Reinderien found out that these are seems to be missing: /testsuites/testsuite/@skipped, /testsuites/testsuite/testcase/skipped, /testsuites/testsuite/error, /testsuites/testsuite/failure, /testsuites/testsuite/system-err, after readthrough of XMLJUnitResultFormatter.java, XMLResultAggregator.java, XMLConstants.java at svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/… – Pigment 22/4, 2015 at 13:24

@naxa, I believe those nodes were added after Apache Ant 1.8.2. I recall being very thorough at the time (back at the begging of 2011). I've just moved the XSD to github and switched the license to the Apache License version 2.0. Feel free to fork and update. – Platypus 27/4, 2015 at 9:52

This was a huge help getting my custom C# testing application to output results in a way that Azure Devops pipelines could understand. – Canebrake 8/6, 2023 at 22:5

The xml output is not generated by JUnit (at least, not the junit.jar), but by the junit ant task.
The relevant class is org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.XMLJUnitResultFormatter.

Conduit answered 31/8, 2009 at 10:8 Comment(3)

This is great. I'd love to see real documentation or a real spec, but otherwise there's nothing more authoritative than the source. – Kocher 19/7, 2012 at 22:54

Interpretation of that source also requires reading svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/… . – Oak 23/4, 2014 at 18:12

Also read svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/… since it's the source of the package and ID attributes. – Oak 23/4, 2014 at 19:23

I found some informal spec at http://ant.1045680.n5.nabble.com/schema-for-junit-xml-output-td1375274.html

Detective answered 5/5, 2009 at 14:44 Comment(2)

yes, I've landed on that page too, but it's not complete. in extending RUnit (unit testing for R) so that it produces output compatible with Hudson, I ended up producing one "testsuites", there a list of "testsuite" and in these all "testcase". I still don't know how to mark deactivated tests. – Ferroelectric 24/9, 2010 at 13:54

@Ferroelectric - under junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/… it states "event-based format [is] specified" by github.com/ota4j-team/open-test-reporting. See Core Spec at: github.com/ota4j-team/open-test-reporting/blob/… – Amby 23/2 at 19:11

As others have mentioned the xml is handled by ANT not jUnit

Here's the best spec I've seen. From this post

Denominator answered 1/5, 2010 at 4:16 Comment(0)

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I can only give you an general information.

In the sourcecode of JUnit, you will find your information. If you provide some more information, I can help you further. My personal hint for finding your specification would be junit.framework.TestResult.

Good luck!

Cistaceous answered 19/1, 2009 at 11:15 Comment(1)

JUnit knows nothing at all about this format. It's generated by ant. It's a bit of a funny business. – Grimaud 14/6, 2011 at 14:23

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