Generating JSON object of the tests ran using Protractor? - json

Question

I'm relatively new to end to end testing with Protractor, Mocha and Yadda (for integration with Mocha so I can use Gherkin and step definitions).
I've seen a plugin called Mochawesome which generates an HTML report which can be viewed offline, along with this JSON object of the test results, all of which contained in a 'reports' folder.
I presume it's Mochawesome which generates these JSON objects as the HTML page seems to have corresponding tags etc. Is there any way to generate a JSON object of the tests ran without the HTML reporter? The idea was to create my own sort of 'dashboard' containing information about the tests based on the JSON information.

Answer 1

Yes you can create a JSON report of your specs/tests with protractor.You just have to put resultJsonOutputFile: './Report.json' in your config file.
your config file should somewhat look like this:
exports.config = {
directConnect: true,
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'chrome'
},
baseUrl: 'http://juliemr.github.io/protractor-demo/',
framework: 'jasmine2',
specs: ['*spec.js '],
allScriptsTimeout: 180000,
getPageTimeout: 180000,
jasmineNodeOpts: {
defaultTimeoutInterval: 180000
},
resultJsonOutputFile: './Report.json', // It would create report.json file in your current folder
onPrepare: function () {
browser.driver.manage().window().maximize();
browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
}
};
You can consume this json report and use it in your way!

Answer 2

I'm not sure about generating JSON object directly in protractor. But what i know is that, we can generate results in XML and then convert xml to json by writing some customized code.
Code for generating XML reports are as follows:
framework: "jasmine2",
onPrepare: function() {
var jasmineReporters = require('jasmine-reporters'),
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new jasmineReporters.JUnitXmlReporter({
savePath: '../result/',
filePrefix: ‘report’,
consolidateAll: true
});
);
},