Test Parser Plugin for Maven

About

This Maven plugin solves the following issue which I described in this Stack Overflow question:

I'm running a Maven build workflow which involves running a 3rd party tool for integration testing, which produces multiple XML files in JUnit style (however, those files are not created by JUnit and I have no control over the testing procedure).

Is there a Maven plugin, which allows me to parse those files? Especially, I would like the build to fail, in case those XML files list a failure.

My exact problem has been described here some years ago, and the proposed solutions were:

1. "Write your own plugin to call your external test and report failures, either by parsing the xml or some other approach" -- potential solution, however I hope that some years later maybe there is something ready-to-use?
2. "Adjust your external test tool so it returns "false" (1) when it has a failure which Maven should pick up and understand to mean "failure encountered" and it will fail the build" -- unfortunately, I have no control over the external tool.

Usage

Through pom.xml

Add it to your pom.xml within the <build> section as follows and specify the resultsDirectory which contains the XML files with the test results. The plugin will also parse XML files within subdirectories.

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>de.philippkatz.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>test-parser-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <resultsDirectory>${project.build.directory}/testflow-reports</resultsDirectory>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>testparser</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>integration-test</phase>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

Via command line

In case you want to use it stand alone without a Maven project, you can still execute the plugin directly on the command line. Pass the path to the results directory with the -Dtestparser.resultsDirectory parameter:

$ mvn de.philippkatz.maven.plugins:test-parser-plugin:3.1.0:testparser -Dtestparser.resultsDirectory=./testflow-reports

Contributing

Pull requests are very welcome. Feel free to discuss bugs or new features by opening a new issue.

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