[Perlunit-users] Fw: Re: Generate HTML reports from unit test results

[Matthew A. <mc...@us...>]

Somebody asked off-list about generating HTML reports from unit test
results, possibly using Test::Unit::Runner::XML.  Here's the main part
of my reply, in case it's of use to anyone else.

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The two routes that spring to mind are

 - write XSL to transform the XML output to HTML

 - use the T:U:Runner::XML module as a template to generate HTML
   instead

I suspect XSL would be easier if you were familiar with both XSL and
Perl, and anyway it's a handy tool to know.  From Perl, you can run
xsltproc as a subprocess or go via XML::XSLT.  Another route would be
to get the web browser to do the XSLT for you - that would be the
neatest solution.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=client-side+xslt looks promising but
the w3schools link advocates use of ActiveX.  I would try
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/client_side_xslt/ .

This route probably needs less maintenance and also you may find parts
of the Ant(?) project already have something because some of the Java
folks are keen on XSL too.

Then again if you just want to hack something together and make it
work it may be easier to start with Andrew's perl module.

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I guess either solution is about the hundred lines of code mark...

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Matthew  #8-)