# Surface Xcode Test Results as Bitrise Output Variable
**URL:** https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630
**Category:** Steps
**Created:** [May 2, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630 "2017-05-02T21:24:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@juliancmg](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/juliancmg)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/1 "2017-05-02T21:24:46Z")
EDITED:
Feature request to have number of tests passing vs. failing as an output variable for Xcode tests. Or at least the names of the tests that failed.
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### Author:  [@viktorbenei](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/viktorbenei)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/2 "2017-05-03T09:12:34Z")
Thanks for the #Feature Requests @juliancmg!
> [@juliancmg](#):
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> Would be nice to be able to send a list of tests that passed, failed, or just a list of all tests that were run and their result (pass/fail) as a BitRise output variable.
How exactly would that look like? Can you provide an example?
Wouldn’t that be a “too long” list? E.g. what if you have 100+ tests?
> [@juliancmg](#):
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> This way , we can surface this on Slack to have better alerting for tests that are failing.
But to see why exactly that test failed you’d still have to open the related [bitrise.io](http://bitrise.io) page, right?
I mean, from only _“Test X failed”_ you won’t have enough information why it failed.
**_P.S.: you can include the build URL in your slack message, with `$BITRISE_BUILD_URL`_**
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### Author:  [@juliancmg](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/juliancmg)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/3 "2017-05-03T18:57:10Z")
Hi Viktor, noted - I didn’t think through the implications of if ALL the tests were reported as in my original feature request. I’ve updated the summary to match maybe more of a regular use case for Slack alerts (high level).
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### Author:  [@viktorbenei](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/viktorbenei)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/4 "2017-05-04T11:08:07Z")
Thanks! 🙂
Still, do you have any example idea?
All I can think of won’t solve that you still have to go to the build’s page to check the logs/details, which don’t really solve the problem (I guess the problem is that you don’t even want to check the build page, only Slack).
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### Author:  [@simonswift](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/simonswift)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/5 "2020-06-17T17:04:02Z")
Would be nice at least to get numbers of tests ran, how many passed / failed… Other CI platforms I’ve used like Jenkins make that available. Currently BITRISE\_XCODE\_TEST\_RESULT just outputs “failed” which doesn’t tell me much. Yes I can go into the build on Bitrise then click into the test results but it’s nice to have the numbers there in Slack for my team to see.
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### Author:  [@gabor\_tachtler](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/gabor_tachtler)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/6 "2021-04-29T17:48:42Z")
Have you found a solution to the problem?
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### Author:  [@markturner](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/markturner)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/7 "2024-05-15T03:15:03Z")
Happy to contribute and add support for this.
To add some technical details it seems relatively straightforward by using `xcresulttool` to parse the results to output json:
```shell
xcrun xcresulttool get --path ./Test.xcresult --format json > result.json
```
We can parse the output and set the environmental vars.
Here’s some code as example:
```go
// Get test results using the test summary ID
cmd = exec.Command("xcrun", "xcresulttool", "get", "--path", xcresultPath, "--id", testSummaryId, "--format", "json")
output, err = cmd.Output()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Error running xcresulttool for test results: %v\n", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
// Parse JSON output to get the test results
var results TestResults
err = json.Unmarshal(output, &results)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Error parsing JSON: %v\n", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
// Set environment variables for the number of tests passed and failed
passedCount := results.Summary.TestsPassedCount.Value
failedCount := results.Summary.TestsFailedCount.Value
os.Setenv("BITRISE_XCODE_TESTS_PASSED_COUNT", fmt.Sprintf("%d", passedCount))
os.Setenv("BITRISE_XCODE_TESTS_FAILED_COUNT", fmt.Sprintf("%d", failedCount))
```
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### Author:  [@markturner](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/markturner)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/surface-xcode-test-results-as-bitrise-output-variable/1630/8 "2024-05-15T03:35:16Z")
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