How to generate XSLT Report using testNG and ANT ?

Why should we go for TestNg?

Answer :-

• TestNg annotations are very useful to control the test cases to be executed.
• TestNg generates a very flashy report called as XSLT report with the help of ANT.

XSLT Report :-

Setting Up TestNG-XSLT Report generator and ANT for Selenium Projects

[Adding TestNG-XSLT report generator package to the Project]

1. Download TestNG-XSLT package from TestNG-XSLT Package
2. Extract the package and copy the JAR files in LIB folder to the Lib Folder of your Project.

[Setting up ANT]

1. Download ANT from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
2. Extract the ZIP
3. System Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Enviroment Variables
4. Create a New System Varable Variable Name :'ANT_HOME' and Value: ANT Path (The Location where you've extracted the contents of .ZIP)
5. Find the variable named  "Path" under System Variables and edit its value as follows.
        append ";" at the end of the value and add "D:\eclipse\Selenium\apache-ant-1.9.1\bin" (The Location where you've kept the extracted folder of ANT)

6. Define a Build.XML for ANT

Sample Build.XML

<project name="Selenium Best Practices" basedir=".">
<taskdef name="testng" classname="org.testng.TestNGAntTask">
   <classpath>
     <pathelement location="lib/testng-6.8.8.jar"/>
   </classpath>
 </taskdef>
    <property name="LIB" value="${basedir}/lib" />
    <property name="BIN" value="${basedir}/bin" />
<property name="SRC" value="${basedir}/src" />

    <path id="master-classpath">
    <pathelement location="${BIN}"/>
       <fileset dir="${LIB}" includes="**/*.jar"/>
    </path>

<target name="clean" >
     <delete>
        <fileset dir="${BIN}" includes="**/*.class" />
     </delete>

<delete dir="${basedir}/test-output">
       </delete>
       <mkdir dir="${basedir}/test-output">
       </mkdir>
  </target>

<target name="compile">
     <javac srcdir="${SRC}" destdir="${BIN}">
      <classpath refid="master-classpath"> 
      </classpath>
     </javac>
  </target>

<target name="run">
<testng outputdir="${basedir}/test-output" classpathref="master-classpath"> 
<xmlfileset dir="${basedir}" includes="testng.xml"/> 
   </testng>
  </target>
     
    <target name="generateReport">
        <delete dir="${basedir}/testng-xslt">
        </delete>
        <mkdir dir="${basedir}/testng-xslt">
        </mkdir>
        <xslt in="${basedir}/test-output/testng-results.xml" style="${basedir}/resources/testng-results.xsl" out="${basedir}/testng-xslt/index.html">
            <param expression="${basedir}/testng-xslt/" name="testNgXslt.outputDir" />
            <param expression="true" name="testNgXslt.sortTestCaseLinks" />
            <param expression="FAIL,SKIP,PASS,CONF,BY_CLASS" name="testNgXslt.testDetailsFilter" />
            <param expression="true" name="testNgXslt.showRuntimeTotals" />
            <classpath refid="master-classpath">
            </classpath>
        </xslt>
    </target>

</project> 

7. Place the Build.XML in your project Folder
8. Copy the "testng-results.XSL" from the TestNG package to your base directory i.e, your project folder. "testng-results.XSL" will be available at [..\testng-xslt-1.1.2-master\src\main\resources] 
9. Launch Command prompt, Go to your Project Location, for Instance "D:\SeleniumProjects\TestAutomation>" and type "ant clean compile run generateReport"
10. Find the TestNG-XSLT report (index.html) in the target Location specified in the Build.XML. In the above example it is specified as "testng-xslt"