Rationale¶

Test suite and automation tools ought to report test data in at least few formats. Each format should satisfy different need. For example:

• As console output while test suite is running as CLI (command line interface) application.
• HTML report is human readable and can be presented to audience.
• JUnit format (formatted XML) is used by various tools, test result parsers to generate reports, combine test data or just present it in Continuous Integration report page.
• Other like database dump: export test result data directly to database located locally or remotely.

All mentioned above methods are supported by test suite at this time.

• Console output is by default printing compile, build and rest result data. Additionally switches like -v or -V can be used for command line to get extra prints from test suite configuration and diagnostic or MUT (mbed under test) console output respectively.
• HTML reports are used to generate simple HTML page with intuitive and simple test result matrix. HTML report is a single page containing all test results and test console output data. Below you can see example HTML report with active test result tool-tip: