XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language for transforming XML documents. To generate an XSLT report in Selenium WebDriver, we can follow these steps:
Using the preferred programming language (Java, Python, etc.), write and execute the Selenium WebDriver tests to generate the test results. Here is a sample of the Selenium WebDriver test in Java:
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;public class SeleniumTest {public static void main(String[] args) {// Set the path to the ChromeDriver executableSystem.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");// Create an instance of the WebDriver (e.g., ChromeDriver)WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();// Open a websitedriver.get("https://www.example.com");// Perform test actionsdriver.findElement(By.name("username")).sendKeys("testuser");// Close the browserdriver.quit();}}
Capture the relevant test results during test execution, such as test case statuses (pass/fail), error messages, or any other information we want to include in the report. This information can be stored in a data structure or object.
To convert the captured test results into an XML format, we can use libraries like JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) or any other XML serialization library provided by the preferred programming language to transform the test results into XML format.
To apply XSLT transformation, create an XSLT stylesheet that defines how the XML test results should be transformed into an HTML report.
Here’s a simple example of an XSLT stylesheet (report.xslt
) that transforms the XML test results into an HTML table:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/"><html><head><title>Test Results</title></head><body><h1>Test Results</h1><table><tr><th>Test Case</th><th>Status</th></tr><xsl:for-each select="test-results/test-case"><tr><td><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></td><td><xsl:value-of select="@status" /></td></tr></xsl:for-each></table></body></html></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>
With the help of this code, the HTML table is generated, having two columns named Test Case
and Status
, populated with the name
and status
data of the XML document, respectively.
To apply the XSLT stylesheet to the XML test results, use an XSLT transformation library provided by the preferred programming language. The library will generate an HTML report as output by taking the XML and XSLT files as input.
For example, in Java, the javax.xml.transform
package can be used to perform the transformation:
import javax.xml.transform.*;import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;public class XSLTReportGenerator {public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {Source xmlSource = new StreamSource("test-results.xml");Source xsltSource = new StreamSource("report.xslt");TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(xsltSource);transformer.transform(xmlSource, new StreamResult("test-report.html"));System.out.println("XSLT report successfully generated.");}}
Here's the line-by-line explanation of the code:
Lines 1–2: We import the necessary classes from the javax.xml.transform
and javax.xml.transform.stream
packages.
Line 4: We define a Java class named XSLTReportGenerator
.
Line 5: We create a main
method that serves as the program's entry point.
Lines 7–8: We load the XML and XSLT files using StreamSource
Line 10: We create an instance of the TransformerFactory
class to provide a factory API for creating Transformer
objects.
Line 11: We create a Transformer
instance responsible for performing the XSLT transformation.
Line 13: We perform the transformation by calling the transform()
method. This line applies the XSLT stylesheet to the XML and saves the output in the test-report.html
file.
Line 15: We print a success message to the console.
We will have an HTML report named as test-report.html
, generated based on the XSLT stylesheet after the completion of the transformation. We can open the report generated by line 13 of the code in a web browser or share it with others for analysis.
Therefore, we can generate an XSLT report from our Selenium WebDriver test results by following these steps, which allow us to present the test execution details in a readable and structured format.
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