Publish TFS testresult as HTML

· March 20, 2008

Tools   TFS   MSBuild

OK - this is one of those “now where has that file moved”-posting.

When you run tests in a TFS build with MSTest a .trx-file is created. This file contains all the test results for that run. However you can’t view it unless you have Visual Studio…

(Apparently you could publish the result to the Team Foundation Server and then do a report but this is much simpler…)

Here is a tool, trx2html, that converts that .trx-file into a nice HTML-report. And that report could then easily be published on the Team Portal.

And here are, based on this article, some steps on how to include the functionality in your build script:

  1. Download the tool
  2. Include the RidoTask.dll in your solution or reachable on the server where the tests are run. I’ve included the dll in a solution folder in my solution, called SolutionItems\Tools

  3. Reference the msbuild task in your build file (.proj)

     <usingTask
   assemblyfile="$(SolutionRoot)\SolutionItems\Tools\RidoTasks.dll"
   taskname="RidoTasks.trx2html"
 >

  4. Convert the trx into html after TFS has dropped the results

     <target name="AfterDropBuild">
   <calltarget targets="CreateTRXReports">
 </target>

<target name="CreateTRXReports">
   <createItem
     include="$(DropLocation)\\$(BuildNumber)\TestResults\\*.trx"
   >
     <output itemame="trxfiles" taskParameter="Include">
   </createItem>
   <ridotasks.trx2html filename="%(trxfiles.Identity)">
 </target>

  5. Inform your project where to find your latest reports, which is the same directory as the testresult itself

     <Exec Command="xcopy
   "$(DropLocation)\\$(BuildNumber)\TestResults\\*.htm"
   "$(TestResultReportPath)" /Q /H /R /Y"
 />

That’s an easy way to keep everyone informed

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