Catch
Testmo works with any test automation tool, including the popular Catch2 unit testing framework for C++. This quickstart guide provides an overview of how to report Catch test automation results to Testmo.
Run Catch & generate XML file
Catch comes with full support for generating JUnit-style XML files, which has become a standard format to exchange test results between tools.
This will run your tests with Catch and automatically write all test results to an XML file called test-results.xml
. You can also configure a different directory or add any other standard Catch command line arguments. You can learn more about the junit
reporter in the Catch documentation.
Submit test results to Testmo
To submit your test results to Testmo, you simply use our cross-platform testmo
CLI tool. The CLI tool is distributed as an NPM package and is easy to install on any system. Simply install our official @testmo/testmo-cli
NPM package:
We can now send the Catch test results to Testmo. To do this, make sure to generate an API key in Testmo from your profile page. The API key is used to authenticate with Testmo to send the results. We can then use the testmo
CLI tool so submit our results (note that we first set the TESTMO_TOKEN
variable, which the tool expects):
That's it! 🎉 This will automatically analyze the XML result file, create a new test run in Testmo, submit all tests & results and mark the run as completed. There's no need to manually create any tests, map tests or IDs or build any custom API code. Everything is handled automatically for you.
➡️ Bonus: Launch Catch with Testmo CLI
In the above example, we first launched Catch to generate the XML file and then used our CLI tool to submit the results in a second step. As an improvement to the above example, we can ask our CLI tool to launch Catch (testmo
then starts and waits for Catch to finish). This has the following additional benefits:
a) Capture full console output and send it to Testmo b) Accurately measure test times c) Record the Catch exit code
More resources & references
Now that you are familiar with submitting your Catch test results to Testmo, you might also find the following additional examples, topics and references useful for more advanced workflows.
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