How I've approached test result reporting with TestNG

This is a look at how I've approached result reporting on my current project. Results, current and historic, are served up on my company's intranet at a URL.

Using:
Selenium, TestNG, Java and Python

So, I run my TestNG tests and these result in some cool looking results automatically (win). These look a bit like this:

Two limitations though:

1. I want everyone to be able to view this easily, and 
2. I want a historical record of past runs to be present

Solution, I'm saving these in to a folder which is hosted up by a simple HTTP server, which is built in to Python. 

Python / simple HTTP server

Go to directory. 

Invoke the following:

c:\dev\opt\python-2.7\python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Obviously I've put in the path to Python, obviously you'll need to change the path to wherever your Python is. 

Historical Record

This was achieved by just creating a copy of the assets at the location being served up whenever I wanted. 

By navigating to the root dir in a browser I could see all of my result folders. 

 Nice, now I just click on a link. 

Batch Scripting a folder copy for historical run results

Just because I am too lazy to copy a folder and rename the new one to a date stamp I created the following batch script which would do it for me. 

@echo off

ECHO Generating timestamp to use in folder name

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c%%b%%a)

For /f "tokens=1-2 delims=/:" %%a in ("%TIME%") do (set mytime=%%a%%b)

echo %mydate%-%mytime%

SET newResultFolderName=%mydate%-%mytime%

ECHO New folder name will be %newResultFolderName%

SET locationOfLatestRunResults="C:\dev\tests\DrivingXml\test-output\"

SET uriToPublishResults="\\myserver01\selenium-test-output\welc\%newResultFolderName%\"

ECHO Location of latest run results: %locationOfLatestRunResults%

ECHO URI to publish results to: %uriToPublishResults%

XCOPY /S /V /Z %locationOfLatestRunResults%* %uriToPublishResults%

EXPLORER %uriToPublishResults%