action-junit-report

... reports JUnit test results as GitHub pull request check.

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What's included 🚀 • Setup 🛠️ • Sample 🖥️ • Contribute 🧬 • License 📓

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What's included 🚀

• Flexible JUnit parser with wide support
• Supports nested test suites
• Blazingly fast execution
• Lighweight
• Rich build log output

This action processes JUnit XML test reports on pull requests and shows the result as a PR check with summary and annotations.

Based on action for Surefire Reports by ScaCap

Setup

Configure the workflow

name: build
on:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build and Run Tests
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Build and Run Tests
        run: # execute your tests generating test results
      - name: Publish Test Report
        uses: mikepenz/action-junit-report@v5
        if: success() || failure() # always run even if the previous step fails
        with:
          report_paths: '**/build/test-results/test/TEST-*.xml'

Inputs

Input	Description
report_paths	Optional. Glob expression to junit report paths. Defaults to: **/junit-reports/TEST-*.xml.
token	Optional. GitHub token for creating a check run. Set to ${{ github.token }} by default.
test_files_prefix	Optional. Prepends the provided prefix to test file paths within the report when annotating on GitHub.
exclude_sources	Optional. Provide , seperated array of folders to ignore for source lookup. Defaults to: /build/,/__pycache__/
check_name	Optional. Check name to use when creating a check run. The default is JUnit Test Report.
suite_regex	REMOVED (as of v5). Instead use check_title_template and configure: {{BREAD_CRUMB}}{{SUITE_NAME}}/{{TEST_NAME}}
commit	Optional. The commit SHA to update the status. This is useful when you run it with workflow_run.
fail_on_failure	Optional. Fail the build in case of a test failure.
require_tests	Optional. Fail if no test are found.
require_passed_tests	Optional. Fail if no passed test are found. (This is stricter than require_tests, which accepts skipped tests).
include_passed	Optional. By default the action will skip passed items for the annotations. Enable this flag to include them.
check_retries	Optional. If a testcase is retried, ignore the original failure.
check_title_template	Optional. Template to configure the title format. Placeholders: {{FILE_NAME}}, {{SUITE_NAME}}, {{TEST_NAME}}, {{CLASS_NAME}}, {{BREAD_CRUMB}}.
bread_crumb_delimiter	Optional. Defines the delimiter characters between the breadcrumb elements. Defaults to: /.
summary	Optional. Additional text to summary output
check_annotations	Optional. Defines if the checks will include annotations. If disabled skips all annotations for the check. (This does not affect annotate_only, which uses no checks).
update_check	Optional. Uses an alternative API to update checks, use for cases with more than 50 annotations. Default: false.
annotate_only	Optional. Will only annotate the results on the files, won't create a check run. Defaults to false.
transformers	Optional. Array of Transformers offering the ability to adjust the fileName. Defaults to: [{"searchValue":"::","replaceValue":"/"}]
job_summary	Optional. Enables the publishing of the job summary for the results. Defaults to true. May be required to disable Enterprise Server
detailed_summary	Optional. Include table with all test results in the summary. Defaults to false.
flaky_summary	Optional. Include table with all falky results in the summary. Defaults to false.
group_suite	Optional. If enabled, will group the testcases by test suite in the detailed_summary. Defaults to false.
comment	Optional. Enables a comment being added to the PR with the summary tables (Respects the summary configuration flags). Defaults to false.
updateComment	Optional. If a prior action run comment exists, it is updated. If disabled, new comments are creted for each run. Defaults to true.
annotate_notice	Optional. Annotate passed test results along with warning/failed ones. Defaults to false. (Changed in v3.5.0)
follow_symlink	Optional. Enables to follow symlinks when searching test files via the globber. Defaults to false.
job_name	Optional. Specify the name of a check to update
annotations_limit	Optional. Specify the limit for annotations. This will also interrupt parsing all test-suites if the limit is reached. Defaults to: No Limit.
skip_annotations	Optional. Setting this flag will result in no annotations being added to the run. Defaults to false.
truncate_stack_traces	Optional. Truncate stack traces from test output to 2 lines in annotations. Defaults to true.
resolve_ignore_classname	Optional. Force ignore test case classname from the xml report (This can help fix issues with some tools/languages). Defaults to false.

Common Configurations

Common report_paths

• Surefire: **/target/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml
• sbt: **/target/test-reports/*.xml

If you observe out-of-memory errors, follow the below configuration suggestion.

Tip

FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

Increase Node Heap Memory

If you encounter an out-of-memory from Node, such as

FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

you can increase the memory allocation by setting an environment variable

- name: Publish Test Report
  uses: mikepenz/action-junit-report@v5
  env:
    NODE_OPTIONS: "--max_old_space_size=4096"
  if: success() || failure() # always run even if the previous step fails
  with:
    report_paths: '**/build/test-results/test/TEST-*.xml'

Action outputs

After action execution it will return the test counts as output.

# ${{steps.{CHANGELOG_STEP_ID}.outputs.total}}

A full set list of possible output values for this action.

Output	Description
outputs.total	The total number of test cases covered by this test-step.
outputs.passed	The number of passed test cases.
outputs.skipped	The number of skipped test cases.
outputs.retried	The number of retried test cases.
outputs.failed	The number of failed test cases.
outputs.summary	The short summary of the junit report. In html format (as also constructed by GitHub for the summary).
outputs.detailed_summary	The full table with all test results in a summary. In html format (as also constructed by GitHub for the summary).
outputs.flaky_summary	The full table with all flaky results in a summary. In html format (as also constructed by GitHub for the summary).

PR run permissions

The action requires write permission on the checks. If the GA token is read-only (this is a repository configuration) please enable write permission via:

permissions:
  checks: write
  pull-requests: write # only required if `comment: true` was enabled

Additionally for security reasons, the github token used for pull_request workflows is marked as read-only. If you want to post checks to a PR from an external repository, you will need to use a separate workflow which has a read/write token, or use a PAT with elevated permissions.

Example

name: build
on:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build and Run Tests
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Build and Run Tests
        run: # execute your tests generating test results
      - name: Upload Test Report
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        if: always() # always run even if the previous step fails
        with:
          name: junit-test-results
          path: '**/build/test-results/test/TEST-*.xml'
          retention-days: 1

---
name: report
on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: [ build ]
    types: [ completed ]

permissions:
  checks: write

jobs:
  checks:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Download Test Report
        uses: dawidd6/action-download-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: junit-test-results
          workflow: ${{ github.event.workflow.id }}
          run_id: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
      - name: Publish Test Report
        uses: mikepenz/action-junit-report@v5
        with:
          commit: ${{github.event.workflow_run.head_sha}}
          report_paths: '**/build/test-results/test/TEST-*.xml'

This will securely post the check results from the privileged workflow onto the PR's checks report.

In environments that do not allow checks: write, the action can be configured to leverage the annotate_only option.

Example

name: pr

on:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  unit_test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Build and Run Tests
        run: # execute your tests generating test results

      - name: Write out Unit Test report annotation for forked repo
        if: ${{ failure() &&  (github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository) }}
        uses: mikepenz/action-junit-report@v5
        with:
          annotate_only: true # forked repo cannot write to checks so just do annotations

This will selectively use different methods for forked and unforked repos.

Sample 🖥️

Contribute 🧬

# Install the dependencies  
$ npm install

# Verify lint is happy
$ npm run lint -- --fix

# Format
$ npm run format

# Build the typescript and package it for distribution
$ npm run build && npm run package

# Run the tests, use to debug, and test it out
$ npm test

Credits

Original idea and GitHub Actions by: https://github.com/ScaCap/action-surefire-report

Other actions

• release-changelog-builder-action
• xray-action
• jira-release-composition-action

License

Copyright (C) 2024 Mike Penz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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