/reporter-file

Similar to the xunit-file reporter. Allows you to specify any report style to run, but will also write to the specifie file

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reporter-file

Similar to the xunit-file reporter. Allows you to specify any report style to run, but will also write to the specified file

How to use

  1. Add "reporter-file" to your package.json devDependencies
  2. Run mocha with either -R reporter-file or --reporter reporter-file

Specifying the Reporter

The reporter can be specified in the MOCHA_REPORTER environment variable or the config.json file. If neither of these are provided, it will defaul to XUnit

MOCHA_REPORTER=Spec

Default Mocha Reporter Options

Mocha comes with several reporters that can be used:

  • Dot
  • Doc
  • TAP
  • JSON
  • HTML
  • List
  • Min
  • Spec
  • Nyan
  • XUnit
  • Markdown
  • Progress
  • Landing
  • JSONCov
  • HTMLCov
  • JSONStream

Specifying the Output

The output file is saved to the file given in the MOCHA_REPORTER_FILE environment variable, the file named in config.json, or process.cwd()/xunit.xml

MOCHA_REPORTER_FILE=output/xunit.xml mocha -R xunit-file

Credits

The original idea and basis for the output file structure came from xunit-file