How to make Gradle build produce HTML test report instead of XML default?

Question

Currently I build my Gradle app by running gradle clean build. This exercises JUnit tests and produces XML test results in my project under build/test-results. I would like to configure my build.gradle file to produce HTML test results (instead of the XML default). Is this possible, if so, how?

Darg

Answer 1

test {
    reports {
        junitXml.enabled = false
        html.enabled = true
    }               
}

To figure this out on your own, start from Test in the Gradle Build Language Reference, then drill down into (the type for) reports.

Phytology

Thanks @Peter Niederwieser (+1) - I think you are referring to this link which I had already found prior to posting my question. The root problem is this: that link doesn't mention the junitXml.enabled or html.enabled properties at all...so how in the world is anybody supposed to know they exist?!? – Darg

Click the next link (TestTaskReports). What's missing in my answer that caused you not to accept it? – Phytology

Thanks again @Peter Niederwieser (+1) - I guess I'm just stunned that this isn't documented anywhere else besides API docs, which one then has to manually infer property names from (using Camel Casing). – Darg

Usually these things are documented in the DSL reference, but sometimes they aren't. – Phytology

Anyone knows how this would be for android gradle scripts ? – Ariadne

This doesn't seem to have any effect under JUnit 5, even for JUnit 4-based tests. – Husband

where do I place this? – Selfsealing

this worked for me after long day of search (my project is kotlin + spring boot + gradle + Junit -jupiter) – Antagonistic

In more recent versions of Gradle, the test and coverage (JaCoCo plugin) both use required instead of enabled. For example: html.required = true – Fischer

Answer 2

According to the Gradle Test Reporting Docs, at least for Gradle version 8.10.2, an HTML based test report is automatically generated whenever the test task is run:

The Test task generates the following results by default:

• An HTML test report

• XML test results in a format compatible with the Ant JUnit report task — one that is supported by many other tools, such as CI servers

• An efficient binary format of the results used by the Test task to generate the other formats

I'm using Gradle with the application plugin using the JUnit 5 Jupiter platform for testing and whenever I run the test task the following test report gets generated and is accessible by opening app/build/reports/tests/test/index.html.

Terrieterrier