A report from the Automated Testing Summit

Posted Dec 4, 2018 16:52 UTC (Tue) by anmar (subscriber, #57578)
Parent article: A report from the Automated Testing Summit

We posted the video series covering the entire summit. You can find it here: https://www.linaro.org/events/attended/ats-2018/

A report from the Automated Testing Summit

Posted Dec 7, 2018 8:47 UTC (Fri) by sergeyb (guest, #102934) [Link]

Attendees also spent a lot of time discussing output formats, he said. There is a wide variety currently, including XML, plain text, JSON, and 0 or 1 exit status. That diversity makes it hard to collect up results from multiple test suites and coherently combine them for consumption by humans.

Please don't reinvent the wheel! There are at least three popular test report formats widely used in testing opensource (and commercial) software: TAP (TestAnythingProtocol), SubUnit and JUnit (XML-based). Many testing frameworks supports these formats and you should have serious reasons to create a new one. There is a page with short description of each format and comparison table.