Apache Ant is an open source build tool. A build tool can be used to compile the source code, creating the build artifacts such as JAR, WAR, and EAR files. Some of the other usage of ANT is to run unit tests, do the application deployment on containers such as JBoss, Tomcat, WebSphere, WebLogic, GlassFish, etc, and to run Automated Selenium Tests.
In this example, we will demonstrate how to Generate HTML Reports using ANT. Let's follow the given steps:
Step 1: Download Apache Ant
| OS | Archive name |
|---|
| Windows | apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.zip |
| Linux | apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz |
| Mac | apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz |
Step 2: Set Ant Environment
Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to point to the base directory location where ANT libraries is stored on your machine. For example, We've stored Ant libraries in apache-ant-1.8.4 folder on various Operating Systems as follows.
| OS | Output |
|---|
| Windows | Set the environment variable ANT_HOME to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-ant-1.8.4 |
| Linux | export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/\apache-ant-1.8.4 |
| Mac | export ANT_HOME=/Library/\apache-ant-1.8.4 |
Append Ant compiler location to System Path is as follows for different OS:
| OS | Output |
|---|
| Windows | Append the string ;%ANT_HOME\bin to the end of the system variable, Path. |
| Linux | export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin/ |
| Mac | not required |
Step 3: Download Junit Archive
| OS | Archive name |
|---|
| Windows | junit4.10.jar |
| Linux | junit4.10.jar |
| Mac | junit4.10.jar |
Let us create a new project in Eclipse and write a build.xml file to execute the Java files in this project
1) Create a new project – JavaProject
2) Create a new package (under src) – seleniumtest
3) Under this package, create new Java class – AntTest.java
4) Record a Selenium Test and export in JUnit 4 format as below
package seleniumtest;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer;
public class AntTest extends SeleneseTestCase{
private static SeleniumServer seleniumServer;
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://www.google.co.in/");
seleniumServer = new SeleniumServer();
seleniumServer.start();
selenium.start();
}
@Test
public void testGoogleSearch() throws Exception {
selenium.open("/");
selenium.click("link=Advanced search");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
selenium.type("as_q", "selftechy, selenium");
selenium.click("//input[@value='Advanced Search']");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
}
@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
seleniumServer.stop();
}
}
Create ANT Build.xml under JavaProject
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="test" default="exec" basedir=".">
<property name="src" value="./src" />
<property name="lib" value="./lib" />
<property name="bin" value="./bin" />
<property name="report" value="./report" />
<path id="test.classpath">
<pathelement location="${bin}" />
<fileset dir="${lib}">
<include name="**/*.jar" />
</fileset>
</path>
<target name="init">
<delete dir="${bin}" />
<mkdir dir="${bin}" />
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="init">
<javac source="1.6" srcdir="${src}" fork="true" destdir="${bin}" includeantruntime="false">
<classpath>
<pathelement path="${bin}">
</pathelement>
<fileset dir="${lib}">
<include name="**/*.jar" />
</fileset>
</classpath>
</javac>
</target>
<target name="exec" depends="compile">
<delete dir="${report}" />
<mkdir dir="${report}" />
<mkdir dir="${report}/xml" />
<junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="no">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${bin}" />
<fileset dir="${lib}">
<include name="**/*.jar" />
</fileset>
</classpath>
<test name="seleniumtest.AntTest" haltonfailure="no" todir="${report}/xml" outfile="TEST-result">
<formatter type="xml" />
</test>
</junit>
<junitreport todir="${report}">
<fileset dir="${report}/xml">
<include name="TEST*.xml" />
</fileset>
<report format="frames" todir="${report}/html" />
</junitreport>
</target>
</project>
Run the following ant command
C:\WORKSPACE\JavaProject\ant
