(Selenium webdriver + Ant + Testng) Build.xml sample file to be used

I have got this build.xml from one of the sites...
and have customised it a bit to get it working.


${basedir} refers to project directory

I have updated path to suite.xml file in below code
I have also added below code to remove existing test output and create each one every time tests are run.

<target name="runTests" depends="compile"> <echo message="${basedir}"/>
<delete dir="${basedir}/test-output"/>
<mkdir dir="${basedir}/test-output"/> 

 <testng classpath="${test.classpath}:${build.dir}"> <xmlfileset dir="${basedir}/src/testpackage/" includes="suite1.xml"/> </testng> </target>

 

<

project name="Automation"

default="clean" basedir=".">

<property name="build.dir" value="${basedir}/build"/>

<property name="lib.dir" value="${basedir}/lib"/>

<property name="src.dir" value="${basedir}/src"/>

<property name="browser" value="/home/nxavier/Downloads/firefox/firefox"/>

<target name="setClassPath">

<path id="classpath_jars">

<pathelement path="${basedir}/" />

<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="*.jar" />

</path>

<pathconvert pathsep=":" property="test.classpath" refid="classpath_jars" />

</target>

<target name="loadTestNG" depends="setClassPath">

<taskdef resource="testngtasks" classpath="${test.classpath}"/>

</target>

<target name="init">

<mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>

<tstamp>

<format property="timestamp" pattern="dd-MM-yyyy_(HH-mm-ss)"/>

</tstamp>

<property name="build.log.dir" location="${basedir}/buildlogs"/>

<mkdir dir="${build.log.dir}"/>

<property name="build.log.filename" value="build_${timestamp}.log"/>

<record name="${build.log.dir}/${build.log.filename}" loglevel="verbose" append="false"/>

<echo message="build logged to ${build.log.filename}"/>

</target>

<target name="clean">

<echo message="deleting existing build directory"/>

<delete dir="${build.dir}"/>

</target>

<target name="compile" depends="clean,init,setClassPath,loadTestNG">

<echo message="classpath:${test.classpath}"/>

<echo message="compiling.........."/>

<javac destdir="${build.dir}" srcdir="${src.dir}" includeantruntime="false" classpath="${test.classpath}"/>

</target>

<target name="runTests" depends="compile">

<echo message="${basedir}"/>

<delete dir="${basedir}/test-output"/>

<mkdir dir="${basedir}/test-output"/>

<testng classpath="${test.classpath}:${build.dir}">

<xmlfileset dir="${basedir}/src/testpackage/" includes="suite1.xml"/>

</testng>

</target>

<target name="report" depends="runTests">

<delete dir="${basedir}/testng-xslt"/>

<mkdir dir="${basedir}/testng-xslt"/>

<xslt in="${basedir}/test-output/testng-results.xml"

style="${basedir}/src/xslt/testng-results.xsl" out="${basedir}/testng-xslt/index.html" processor="SaxonLiaison">

<param expression="${basedir}/testng-xslt/" name="testNgXslt.outputDir"/>

<param expression="true" name="testNGXslt.sortTestCaseLinks"/>

<param expression="FAIL,SKIP,PASS,BY_CLASS" name="testNgXslt.testDetailsFilter"/>

<param expression="true" name="testNgXslt.showRuntimeTotals"/>

<classpath refid="classpath_jars"/>

</xslt>

</target>

<target name="RunAndViewReport" depends="report">

<exec executable="${browser}" spawn="yes">

<arg line="'${basedir}/testng-xslt/index.html'" />

</exec>

</target>

<target name="sendMail" depends="RunAndViewReport">

<zip destfile="${basedir}/testng-xslt/Report.zip" basedir="${basedir}/testng-xslt"/>

<mail mailhost="smtp.gmail.com" mailport="465" subject="Notification of TESTNG build" ssl="false" user="tester@gmail.com" password="password">

<from address="tester@gmail.com"/>

<to address="tester@gmail.com"/>

<message>The build has finished. A details report of this build is aatched</message>

<attachments>

<fileset dir="testng-xslt">

<include name="**/*.zip"/>

</fileset>

</attachments>

</mail>

</target></
project>

Suite.xml must be written as per testng guidelines.
I haven't verified email functionality

I will make another post explaining how to use this build xml and run it from command line