How To Use MSTest TRX to HTML Viewer



MSTest TRX to HTML Viewer is free open source library to convert MSTest result (.trx) file into HTML. It is also allowed to perform MS Test on your test container (.dll) file. This utility will work with simple command line arguments as mentioned below.

You can generate HTML report by selecting .trx (MS Test Result) file or applying MSTest on your test container (.dll) file, using this method it would require   physical path of MSTest.exe and your TestContainer file (.dll) then it will automatically created .trx file to generate HTML report.

  • Basic  Usage
    • /t
    • /T
    • /trxfilepath
    • -t
    • -T
    • -TRXFILEPATH
  • All Arguments
Name Flag Summary
MSTest Exe File Path /m You have to define physical path of MSTest.exe. this will required only if you don’t have .trx file.
Test Container Folder Path /tc You have to define physical path of your test container file (.dll). this will required only if you don’t have .trx file.
Trx File Path /t You have to define physical path of trx file.
Destination Folder Path /d Output data (HTML) files will store at this location. If path not exists then it will automatically created.
Help /? This will display all command parameters on screen.
  • General Help
Following command will display all the parameters with optional are display on screen.
MSTestResultViewer.Console.exe /?

Output:

Note: first of all you should be inside the MSTestResultViewer.Console.exe folder to work successfully. You can execute following command to get into MSTestResultViewer.Console.exe working folder.

  1. Goto command prompt
  2. type command in command windowcd “C:\Program Files\Saffroze Technology\MSTest Result Viewer”C:\Program Files\ will be your default installation path.
  3. If you have .trx file then execute following command
    MSTestResultViewer.Consol.exe /t “d:\test.trx” /d “d:\HTMLReport”
    /t “d:\test.trx” physical path of .trx file.
    /d “d:\HTMLReport” destination folder, it will automatically created if does not exists.
  4. If you don’t have .trx file then execute following command.MSTestResultViewer.Consol.exe /m “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe”
    /tc “D:\Imdadhusen\Samples\MSTestProject\MSTestProject\bin\Debug\MSTestProject.dll” /d “d:\HTMLReport”
    /m “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe” physical path of MSTest.exe.
    /tc “D:\Imdadhusen\Samples\MSTestProject\MSTestProject\bin\Debug\MSTestProject.dll” physical path of TestContainer file.
    /d “d:\HTMLReport” destination folder, it will automatically created if does not exists.
  5. View HTML Report go to d:\HTMLReport folder double click on index.html. You can see everything of your test result with graphical represantaion.

Command Line Parameter Screen

Generated Report Screen

You can download MSTest TRX to HTML Viewer for free.

You can also download trx to html viewer guidline in pdf 

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