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GitHub Action to Publish Test Results

This GitHub Action analyses test result files and publishes the results on GitHub. It supports JSON (Dart, Mocha), TRX (MSTest, VS) and XML (JUnit, NUnit, XUnit) file formats, and runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.

You can use this action with runners (e.g. runs-on: ubuntu-latest) or self-hosted runners that support Docker:

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
  if: always()
  with:
    files: |
      test-results/**/*.xml
      test-results/**/*.trx
      test-results/**/*.json

See the notes on running this action with absolute paths if you cannot use relative test result file paths.

Use this for (e.g. runs-on: macos-latest) runners:

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/macos@v2
  if: always()
  with:
    files: |
      test-results/**/*.xml
      test-results/**/*.trx
      test-results/**/*.json

… and (e.g. runs-on: windows-latest) runners:

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/windows@v2
  if: always()
  with:
    files: |
      test-results\**\*.xml
      test-results\**\*.trx
      test-results\**\*.json

For self-hosted Linux GitHub Actions runners without Docker installed, please use:

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/linux@v2
  if: always()
  with:
    files: |
      test-results/**/*.xml
      test-results/**/*.trx
      test-results/**/*.json

See the notes on running this action as a non-Docker action.

If you see the "Resource not accessible by integration" error, you have to grant additional permissions, or setup the support for pull requests from fork repositories and branches created by Dependabot.

The if: always() clause guarantees that this action always runs, even if earlier steps (e.g., the test step) in your workflow fail.

When run multiple times in one workflow, the option check_name has to be set to a unique value for each instance. Otherwise, the multiple runs overwrite each other's results.

Note: By default, this action does not fail if tests failed. This can be configured via action_fail. The action that executed the tests should fail on test failure. The published results however indicate failure if tests fail or errors occur, which can be configured via fail_on.

Permissions

Minimal workflow job permissions required by this action in public GitHub repositories are:

permissions:
  checks: write
  pull-requests: write

The following permissions are required in private GitHub repos:

permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: read
  checks: write
  pull-requests: write

With comment_mode: off, the pull-requests: write permission is not needed.

Generating test result files

Supported test result files can be generated by many test environments. Here is a small overview, by far not complete. Check your favorite development and test environment for its JSON, TRX file or JUnit, NUnit, XUnit XML file support.

What is new in version 2

Default value for check_name changed

Unless check_name is set in your config, the check name used to publish test results changes from "Unit Test Results" to "Test Results".

Impact: The check with the old name will not be updated once moved to version 2.

Workaround to get version 1 behaviour: Add check_name: "Unit Test Results" to your config.

Default value for comment_title changed

Unless comment_title or check_name are set in your config, the title used to comment on open pull requests changes from "Unit Test Results" to "Test Results".

Impact: Existing comments with the old title will not be updated once moved to version 2, but a new comment is created.

Workaround to get version 1 behaviour: See workaround for check_name.

Modes create new and update last removed for option comment_mode

The action always updates an earlier pull request comment, which is the exact behaviour of mode update last. The configuration options create new and update last are therefore removed.

Impact: An existing pull request comment is always updated.

Workaround to get version 1 behaviour: Not supported.

Option hiding_comments removed

The action always updates an earlier pull request comment, so hiding comments is not required anymore.

Option comment_on_pr removed

Option comment_on_pr has been removed.

Workaround to get version 1 behaviour: Set comment_mode to always (the default) or off.

Publishing test results

Test results are published on GitHub at various (configurable) places:

• as a comment in related pull requests
• as a check in the checks section of a commit and related pull requests
• as annotations in the checks section and changed files section of a commit and related pull requests
• as a job summary of the GitHub Actions workflow
• as a check summary in the GitHub Actions section of the commit

Pull request comment

A comment is posted on pull requests related to the commit.

In presence of failures or errors, the comment links to the respective check summary with failure details.

Subsequent runs of the action will update this comment. You can access earlier results in the comment edit history:

The result distinguishes between tests and runs. In some situations, tests run multiple times, e.g. in different environments. Displaying the number of runs allows spotting unexpected changes in the number of runs as well.

When tests run only a single time, no run information is displayed. Results are then shown differently then:

The change statistics (e.g. 5 tests ±0) might sometimes hide test removal. Those are highlighted in pull request comments to easily spot unintended test removal:

Note: This requires check_run_annotations to be set to all tests, skipped tests.

Comments can be disabled with comment_mode: off.

Commit and pull request checks

The checks section of a commit and related pull requests list a short summary (here 1 fail, 1 skipped, …), and a link to the check summary in the GitHub Actions section (here Details):

Commit checks:

Pull request checks:

Check runs can be disabled with check_run: false.

Commit and pull request annotations

Each failing test produces an annotation with failure details in the checks section of a commit:

and the changed files section of related pull requests:

Note: Annotations for test files are only supported when test file paths in test result files are relative to the repository root. Use option test_file_prefix to add a prefix to, or remove a prefix from these file paths. See Configuration section for details.

Note: Only the first failure of a test is shown. If you want to see all failures, set report_individual_runs: "true".

Check run annotations can be disabled with ignore_runs: true.

GitHub Actions job summary

The results are added to the job summary page of the workflow that runs this action:

In presence of failures or errors, the job summary links to the respective check summary with failure details.

Note: Job summary requires GitHub Actions runner v2.288.0 or above.

Job summaries can be disabled with job_summary: false.

GitHub Actions check summary of a commit

Test results are published in the GitHub Actions check summary of the respective commit:

Check runs can be disabled with check_run: false.

The symbols

The symbols have the following meaning:

Note: For simplicity, "disabled" tests count towards "skipped" tests.

Configuration

Files can be selected via the files option. It supports glob wildcards like *, **, ?, and [] character ranges. The ** wildcard matches all files and directories recursively: ./, ./*/, ./*/*/, etc.

You can provide multiple file patterns, one pattern per line. Patterns starting with ! exclude the matching files. There have to be at least one pattern starting without a !:

with:
  files: |
    *.xml
    !config.xml

The list of most notable options:

Pull request comments highlight removal of tests or tests that the pull request moves into skip state. Those removed or skipped tests are added as a list, which is limited in length by test_changes_limit, which defaults to 10. Reporting these tests can be disabled entirely by setting this limit to 0. This feature requires check_run_annotations to contain all tests in order to detect test addition and removal, and skipped tests to detect new skipped and un-skipped tests, as well as check_run_annotations_branch to contain your default branch.

JSON result

The gathered test information are accessible as JSON via GitHub Actions steps outputs string or JSON file.

The json output of the action can be accessed through the expression steps.<id>.outputs.json.

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
  id: test-results
  if: always()
  with:
    files: "test-results/**/*.xml"

- name: Conclusion
  run: echo "Conclusion is ${{ fromJSON( steps.test-results.outputs.json ).conclusion }}"

Here is an example JSON:

{
  "title": "4 parse errors, 4 errors, 23 fail, 18 skipped, 227 pass in 39m 12s",
  "summary": "  24 files  ±0      4 errors  21 suites  ±0   39m 12s [:stopwatch:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"duration of all tests\") ±0s\n272 tests ±0  227 [:white_check_mark:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"passed tests\") ±0  18 [:zzz:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"skipped / disabled tests\") ±0  23 [:x:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"failed tests\") ±0  4 [:fire:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"test errors\") ±0 \n437 runs  ±0  354 [:white_check_mark:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"passed tests\") ±0  53 [:zzz:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"skipped / disabled tests\") ±0  25 [:x:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"failed tests\") ±0  5 [:fire:](https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/blob/v2.6.1/README.md#the-symbols \"test errors\") ±0 \n\nResults for commit 11c02e56. ± Comparison against earlier commit d8ce4b6c.\n",
  "conclusion": "success",
  "stats": {
    "files": 24,
    "errors": 4,
    "suites": 21,
    "duration": 2352,
    "tests": 272,
    "tests_succ": 227,
    "tests_skip": 18,
    "tests_fail": 23,
    "tests_error": 4,
    "runs": 437,
    "runs_succ": 354,
    "runs_skip": 53,
    "runs_fail": 25,
    "runs_error": 5,
    "commit": "11c02e561e0eb51ee90f1c744c0ca7f306f1f5f9"
  },
  "stats_with_delta": {
    "files": {
      "number": 24,
      "delta": 0
    },
    …,
    "commit": "11c02e561e0eb51ee90f1c744c0ca7f306f1f5f9",
    "reference_type": "earlier",
    "reference_commit": "d8ce4b6c62ebfafe1890c55bf7ea30058ebf77f2"
  },
  "check_url": "https://github.com/EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/runs/5397876970",
  "formatted": {
     "stats": {
        "duration": "2 352",
        …
     },
     "stats_with_delta": {
        "duration": {
           "number": "2 352",
           "delta": "+12"
        },
        …
     }
  },
  "annotations": 31
}

The formatted key provides a copy of stats and stats_with_delta, where numbers are formatted to strings. For example, "duration": 2352 is formatted as "duration": "2 352". The thousands separator can be configured via json_thousands_separator. Formatted numbers are especially useful when those values are used where formatting is not easily available, e.g. when creating a badge from test results.

The optional json_file allows to configure a file where extended JSON information are to be written. Compared to "Access JSON via step outputs" above, errors and annotations contain more information than just the number of errors and annotations, respectively.

Additionally, json_test_case_results can be enabled to add the cases field to the JSON file, which provides all test results of all tests. Enabling this may greatly increase the output size of the JSON file.

{
   …,
   "stats": {
      …,
      "errors": [
         {
            "file": "test-files/empty.xml",
            "message": "File is empty.",
            "line": null,
            "column": null
         }
      ],
      …
   },
   …,
   "annotations": [
      {
         "path": "test/test.py",
         "start_line": 819,
         "end_line": 819,
         "annotation_level": "warning",
         "message": "test-files/junit.fail.xml",
         "title": "1 out of 3 runs failed: test_events (test.Tests)",
         "raw_details": "self = <test.Tests testMethod=test_events>\n\n                def test_events(self):\n                > self.do_test_events(3)\n\n                test.py:821:\n                _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _\n                test.py:836: in do_test_events\n                self.do_test_rsh(command, 143, events=events)\n                test.py:852: in do_test_rsh\n                self.assertEqual(expected_result, res)\n                E AssertionError: 143 != 0\n            "
      }
   ],
   …,
   "cases": [
      {
         "class_name": "test.test_spark_keras.SparkKerasTests",
         "test_name": "test_batch_generator_fn",
         "states": {
            "success": [
               {
                  "result_file": "test-files/junit-xml/pytest/junit.spark.integration.1.xml",
                  "test_file": "test/test_spark_keras.py",
                  "line": 454,
                  "class_name": "test.test_spark_keras.SparkKerasTests",
                  "test_name": "test_batch_generator_fn",
                  "result": "success",
                  "time": 0.006
               },
               {
                  "result_file": "test-files/junit-xml/pytest/junit.spark.integration.2.xml",
                  "test_file": "test/test_spark_keras.py",
                  "line": 454,
                  "class_name": "test.test_spark_keras.SparkKerasTests",
                  "test_name": "test_batch_generator_fn",
                  "result": "success",
                  "time": 0.006
               }
            ]
         }
      },
   …
   ],
   …
}

See Create a badge from test results for an example on how to create a badge from this JSON.

Use with matrix strategy

In a scenario where your tests run multiple times in different environments (e.g. a strategy matrix), the action should run only once over all test results. For this, put the action into a separate job that depends on all your test environments. Those need to upload the test results as artifacts, which are then all downloaded by your publish job.

name: CI

on: [push]
permissions: {}

jobs:
  build-and-test:
    name: Build and Test (Python ${{ matrix.python-version }})
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}

      - name: PyTest
        run: python -m pytest test --junit-xml pytest.xml

      - name: Upload Test Results
        if: always()
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: Test Results (Python ${{ matrix.python-version }})
          path: pytest.xml

  publish-test-results:
    name: "Publish Tests Results"
    needs: build-and-test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      checks: write

      # only needed unless run with comment_mode: off
      pull-requests: write

      # only needed for private repository
      contents: read

      # only needed for private repository
      issues: read
    if: always()

    steps:
      - name: Download Artifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
          path: artifacts

      - name: Publish Test Results
        uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
        with:
          files: "artifacts/**/*.xml"

Please consider to support fork repositories and dependabot branches together with your matrix strategy.

Support fork repositories and dependabot branches

Getting test results of pull requests created by contributors from fork repositories or by Dependabot requires some additional setup. Without this, the action will fail with the "Resource not accessible by integration" error for those situations.

In this setup, your CI workflow does not need to publish test results anymore as they are always published from a separate workflow.

1. Your CI workflow has to upload the GitHub event file and test result files.
2. Set up an additional workflow on workflow_run events, which starts on completion of the CI workflow, downloads the event file and the test result files, and runs this action on them. This workflow publishes the test results for pull requests from fork repositories and dependabot, as well as all "ordinary" runs of your CI workflow.

1. Add the following job to your CI workflow to upload the event file as an artifact:

event_file:
  name: "Event File"
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  - name: Upload
    uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
    with:
      name: Event File
      path: ${{ github.event_path }}

2. Add the following action step to your CI workflow to upload test results as artifacts. Adjust the value of path to fit your setup:

- name: Upload Test Results
  if: always()
  uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
  with:
    name: Test Results
    path: |
      test-results/*.xml

3. If you run tests in a strategy matrix, make the artifact name unique for each job, e.g.:

  with:
    name: Test Results (${{ matrix.python-version }})
    path: …

4. Add the following workflow that publishes test results. It downloads and extracts all artifacts into artifacts/ARTIFACT_NAME/, where ARTIFACT_NAME will be Upload Test Results when setup as above, or Upload Test Results (…) when run in a strategy matrix.

   It then runs the action on files matching artifacts/**/*.xml. Change the files pattern with the path to your test artifacts if it does not work for you. The publish action uses the event file of the CI workflow.

   Also adjust the value of workflows (here "CI") to fit your setup:

name: Test Results

on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["CI"]
    types:
      - completed
permissions: {}

jobs:
  test-results:
    name: Test Results
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: github.event.workflow_run.conclusion != 'skipped'

    permissions:
      checks: write

      # needed unless run with comment_mode: off
      pull-requests: write

      # only needed for private repository
      contents: read

      # only needed for private repository
      issues: read

      # required by download step to access artifacts API
      actions: read

    steps:
       - name: Download and Extract Artifacts
         uses: dawidd6/action-download-artifact@e7466d1a7587ed14867642c2ca74b5bcc1e19a2d
         with:
            run_id: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
            path: artifacts

      - name: Publish Test Results
        uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
        with:
          commit: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha }}
          event_file: artifacts/Event File/event.json
          event_name: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.event }}
          files: "artifacts/**/*.xml"

Note: Running this action on pull_request_target events is dangerous if combined with code checkout and code execution. This event is therefore not use here intentionally!

Running with multiple event types (pull_request, push, schedule, …)

This action comments on a pull request each time it is executed via any event type. When run for more than one event type, runs will overwrite earlier pull request comments.

Note that pull_request events may produce different test results than any other event type. The pull_request event runs the workflow on a merge commit, i.e. the commit merged into the target branch. All other event types run on the commit itself.

If you want to distinguish between test results from pull_request and push, or want to distinguish the original test results of the push to master from subsequent schedule events, you may want to add the following to your workflow.

Test results per event type

Add the event name to check_name to avoid different event types overwriting each other's results:

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
  if: always()
  with:
    check_name: "Test Results (${{ github.event.workflow_run.event || github.event_name }})"
    files: "test-results/**/*.xml"

Pull request comments only for pull_request events

Disabling the pull request comment mode ("off") for events other than pull_request avoids that any other event type overwrites pull request comments:

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
  if: always()
  with:
    # set comment_mode to "always" for pull_request event, set to "off" for all other event types
    comment_mode: ${{ (github.event.workflow_run.event == 'pull_request' || github.event_name == 'pull_request') && 'always' || 'off' }}
    files: "test-results/**/*.xml"

Create a badge from test results

Here is an example how to use the JSON output of this action to create a badge like this:

steps:
- …
- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
  id: test-results
  if: always()
  with:
    files: "test-results/**/*.xml"

- name: Set badge color
  shell: bash
  run: |
    case ${{ fromJSON( steps.test-results.outputs.json ).conclusion }} in
      success)
        echo "BADGE_COLOR=31c653" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        ;;
      failure)
        echo "BADGE_COLOR=800000" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        ;;
      neutral)
        echo "BADGE_COLOR=696969" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        ;;
    esac

- name: Create badge
  uses: emibcn/badge-action@808173dd03e2f30c980d03ee49e181626088eee8
  with:
    label: Tests
    status: '${{ fromJSON( steps.test-results.outputs.json ).formatted.stats.tests }} tests, ${{ fromJSON( steps.test-results.outputs.json ).formatted.stats.runs }} runs: ${{ fromJSON( steps.test-results.outputs.json ).conclusion }}'
    color: ${{ env.BADGE_COLOR }}
    path: badge.svg

- name: Upload badge to Gist
  # Upload only for master branch
  if: >
    github.event_name == 'workflow_run' && github.event.workflow_run.head_branch == 'master' ||
    github.event_name != 'workflow_run' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
  uses: andymckay/append-gist-action@6e8d64427fe47cbacf4ab6b890411f1d67c07f3e
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.GIST_TOKEN }}
    gistURL: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/{user}/{id}
    file: badge.svg

You have to create a personal access toke (PAT) with gist permission only. Add it to your GitHub Actions secrets, in above example with secret name GIST_TOKEN.

Set the gistURL to the Gist that you want to write the badge file to, in the form of https://gist.githubusercontent.com/{user}/{id}.

You can then use the badge via this URL: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/{user}/{id}/raw/badge.svg

Running with absolute paths

It is known that this action works best with relative paths (e.g. test-results/**/*.xml), but most absolute paths (e.g. /tmp/test-results/**/*.xml) require to use the non-Docker variant of this action:

uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/linux@v2
uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/macos@v2
uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/windows@v2

If you have to use absolute paths with the Docker variant of this action (uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2), you have to copy files to a relative path first, and then use the relative path:

- name: Copy Test Results
  if: always()
  run: |
    cp -Lpr /tmp/test-results test-results
  shell: bash

- name: Publish Test Results
  uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
  if: always()
  with:
     files: |
        test-results/**/*.xml
        test-results/**/*.trx
        test-results/**/*.json

Using the Docker variant of this action is recommended as it starts up much quicker.

Running as a non-Docker action

Running this action as below allows to run it on action runners that do not provide Docker:

uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/linux@v2
uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/macos@v2
uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/windows@v2

These actions, however, require a Python3 environment to be setup on the action runner. All GitHub-hosted runners (Ubuntu, Windows Server and macOS) provide a suitable Python3 environment out-of-the-box.

Self-hosted runners may require setting up a Python environment first:

- name: Setup Python
  uses: actions/setup-python@v5
  with:
    python-version: 3.8

Start-up of the action is faster with virtualenv or venv package installed.

Running as a composite action

Running this action via:

uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/composite@v2

is deprecated, please use an action appropriate for your operating system and shell:

• Linux (Bash shell): uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/linux@v2
• macOS (Bash shell): uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/macos@v2
• Windows (PowerShell): uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/windows@v2
• Windows (Bash shell): uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/windows/bash@v2

These are non-Docker variations of this action. For details, see section "Running as a non-Docker action" above.