Modern C++ Programming Cookbook

How it works...

Generating a report in an XML format does not affect the human-readable report printed to the terminal. The output path can indicate either a file, a directory (in which case a file with the name of the executable is created--if it already exists from a previous run, it creates a file with a new name by suffixing it with a number), or nothing, in which case the report is written to a file called test_detail.xml in the current directory.

The XML report format is based on the JUnitReport Ant task and contains the following main elements:

• <testsuites>: This is the root element and it corresponds to the entire test program.
• <testsuite>: This corresponds to a test case, as Google Test test cases are equivalent to test suites in ...