How to collapse jUnit output to summary, using ANT? - ant

Question

My test target looks as follows:
<target name="test" depends="compileTest">
<junit haltonfailure="yes">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="bin" />
<pathelement location="lib/xstream-1.4.2.jar" />
<pathelement location="lib/jettison-1.2.jar" />
</classpath>
<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" />
<batchtest>
<fileset dir="${test-src}">
<include name="**/*Test*" />
</fileset>
</batchtest>
</junit>
</target>
And output looks as follows:
test:
[junit] Testsuite: app.commons.error.test.ShellErrorMessageTest
[junit] Tests run: 9, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.006 sec
[junit] Testcase: testCreateNormal took 0.003 sec
[junit] Testcase: testGetSectionSeparatorLine took 0.001 sec
[junit] Testcase: testGetSectionSeparatorLineMultipleSymbols took 0 sec
[junit] Testcase: testGetSectionSeparatorLineEmptySymbol took 0 sec
[junit] Testcase: testGetSectionSeparatorLineEmptySymbolSpace took 0 sec
[junit] Testcase: testGetSectionSeparatorLineNull took 0 sec
How can i collapse this output to a 1 line summary?
Is there a way to receive 1 line output along the line of "Ran 500 tests. 0 Failures. 0 Errors"

Answer 1

You can set an unverbose junit-output by adding
<formatter type="brief" usefile="false"/>
within <junit>.
To further reduce it, the following options come to my mind:
use a standard unix/cygwin tool to filter the output,
add a <junitreport>-task within <junit>, or
check the free exemplary chapter "Testing with JUnit" from "Java Development with Ant, they probably have some advice for you in there.