How do I format Visual Studio Test results file (.trx) into a more readable format?

Since this file is XML you could and should use xsl to transform it to another format. The IAmUnkown - blog has an entry about decoding/transforming the trx file into html.

You can also use .NetSpecExporter from Bekk to create nice reports. Their product also uses XSL, so you could probably steal it from the downloaded file and apply it with whatever xsl-application you want.


If your are using VS2008 I also have an answer on IAmUnknown. Which updates the above answer which is based on VS 2005 trx format

here is a style sheet that creates a readable HTM file

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"  
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:t="http://microsoft.com/schemas/VisualStudio/TeamTest/2006"
                >

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <head>
        <style type="text/css">
            h2 {color: sienna}
            p {margin-left: 20px}
            .resultsHdrRow { font-face: arial; padding: 5px }
            .resultsRow { font-face: arial; padding: 5px }
            </style>
    </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Test Results</h2>
    <h3>Summary</h3>
        <ul>
            <li>Tests found:    <xsl:value-of select="t:TestRun/t:ResultSummary/t:Counters/@total"/></li>
            <li>Tests executed: <xsl:value-of select="t:TestRun/t:ResultSummary/t:Counters/@executed"/></li>
            <li>Tests passed:   <xsl:value-of select="t:TestRun/t:ResultSummary/t:Counters/@passed"/></li>
            <li>Tests Failed:   <xsl:value-of select="t:TestRun/t:ResultSummary/t:Counters/@failed"/></li>

        </ul>
    <table border="1" width="80%" >
        <tr  class="resultsHdrRow">
          <th align="left">Test</th>
          <th align="left">Outcome</th>
        </tr>
        <xsl:for-each select="/t:TestRun/t:Results/t:UnitTestResult" >
        <tr valign="top" class="resultsRow">
            <td width='30%'><xsl:value-of select="@testName"/></td>
            <td width='70%'>
              <Div>Message: <xsl:value-of select="t:Output/t:ErrorInfo/t:Message"/></Div>
              <br/>
              <Div>Stack: <xsl:value-of select="t:Output/t:ErrorInfo/t:StackTrace"/></Div>
               <br/>
              <Div>Console: <xsl:value-of select="t:Output/t:StdOut"/></Div>
            </td>
        </tr>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

you can also try trx2html

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Unit Testing

Visual Studio 2008

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