Producing TestNG XML reports with custom attributes in gradle

[itkhanz]

Hi,
I would like to have custom attributes in TestNG XML report. In the documentation, i read that this is possible via:
https://testng.org/#_xml_reports

but I could not figure out how to achieve this using gradle test task with useTestNG()

More detailed information on this I posted in gradle discsssion forms:
https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-to-pass-custom-arguments-to-testng-listeners-in-gradle/48462

I researched about this issue alot, and came across some old issues and your response in testng user group where it was suggested to create a custom gradle task, but I am more interested to see whether we can achieve this via plain gradle test task.

Probably it is a gradle specific issue and limitation in gradle API to invoke TestNG, but I would still be interested to hear your opinion about any possibility.

[krmahadevan]

@itkhanz - The TestNG team does not own the Gradle integration piece. So you would need to check this with the Gradle community.

I think only the most common things are available out of the box via the useTestNG {} method parameter TestNGOptions

Since Gradle allows you to define your own custom task, you should perhaps pursue that.

[itkhanz]

Thank you for clarifying this issue. I have raised a feature request for Gradle Team to allow this option out of box via useTestNG{} inside gradle test task.

The problem with using custom gradle task of type JavaExec to achieve this functioanlity is that we then lose all the features provided by gradle that are part of task with type Test.