Mocha Sonar Reporter

SonarQube XML reporter for Mocha

Features:

• Generate xml reports compatible with SonarQube
• Ability to also write to stdout
• Ability to define custom reporter for stdout
• Silent mode to disable output
• Customize output file path and/or name

About

We needed the ability to generate xml reports for unit tests and import them to SonarQube. There are a few libraries that attempt to help with this, but they all were either outdated, generated incompatible xml, or only logged xml to stdout. This library will let you generate unit test execution reports in a format compatible with sonarqube generic test format and write them to a file. You can also pipe output to a secondary reporter for a human readable view as well.

Usage

Add mocha-sonar as a dependency for your app and install via npm

npm install @danmasta/mocha-sonar --save-dev

Use the reporter for tests

mocha -R @danmasta/mocha-sonar tests

Options

Options can be passed using the reporterOptions field in mocha options, or the --reporter-options field via command line

name	description
cwd	Location to use to generate relative file paths for tests. Default is process.cwd()
output	File path where you would like the sonar xml report to be saved. Default is ./coverage/sonar.xml
delimiter	Delimiter to use to join names for nested tests. Default is ' '
reporter	Name of the reporter you would like to use for console output. Default is list
silent	If true disables secondary reporter output. Default is false
spaces	Number of spaces to use when formatting xml output. Default is 4

Examples

Use mocha-sonar from command line

mocha -R @danmasta/mocha-sonar ./tests/unit/**/*.js

Pass options to npm test command

npm run test -- --reporter=@danmasta/mocha-sonar --reporter-options --reporter=nyan,delimeter=::

Coverage reports with nyc

nyc --reporter=lcov mocha -R @danmasta/mocha-sonar ./tests/unit/**/*.js

Use mocha and/or nyc as gulp tasks

const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
const gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('test', () => {
    return spawn('mocha -R @danmasta/mocha-sonar ./tests/unit/**/*.js', {
        shell: true,
        stdio: ['inherit', 'inherit', 'inherit']
    });
});

gulp.task('coverage', () => {
    return spawn('nyc --reporter=lcov mocha -R @danmasta/mocha-sonar ./tests/unit/**/*.js', {
        shell: true,
        stdio: ['inherit', 'inherit', 'inherit']
    });
});

gulp.task('default', gulp.series('test', 'build'));
gulp.task('publish', gulp.series('coverage', 'build', 'deploy'));

Contact

If you have any questions feel free to get in touch