VSTS Unit Testing Summary Document (HTML)?

Question

 

Hi

 

I am using VSTS for unit testing, FYI I use Visual Studio 2008. I did enable "XML documentation file" check box in the BUILD tab of the test project...but it generates an XML file WITHOUT the test results.

 

Is there an option to document the test results (preferably HTML format). The document's purpose is just to find what are all the test case that were executed and their corresponding success/ failiure result?

 

Thanks

 

Answer 1

Hi Shan,

 

There is a codebox tool called TRX2HTML (http://www.codeplex.com/trx2html) that provides HTML-formatted reports of TRX files.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Joe Allan Muharsky

SDET, Visual Studio Team Test

 

Answer 2

Hi,

 

Cool tool. That helps but just curious to know how stable this tool is...I mean is it stable/good enough to host it in other environments (Production!!)?

 

Assuming we rule out the tool considering it's only in Beta! what else is the approach we can think of? FYI I am using Visual Studio 2008 so my VSTS trx file is version 9.

 

 

Answer 3

This tool also has a version for VS2008. I can't comment on how stable it is, I've never used it myself.

 

Another approach could be to write your own .XSLT file to convert TRX (which is XML file) to HTML.

 

Thanks,

Michael Koltachev, VS Team Test

Answer 4

Here is how you can write your own XSLT to convert TRX into HTML, I have simplified the example but you can extend it to all kinds of tests and make it look cool with CSS, check it out http://www.mytechfinds.com/articles/software-testing/6-test-automation/27-trx-to-html-using-xslt