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JUnit XML — No Time Attributes

A report from a runner that never records durations: neither the suite nor any case carries a time attribute. Dashboards that parse time unconditionally throw here, and ones that default it to zero quietly report a suite that took no time at all.

Preview — first 8 linesxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testsuite name="smoke.QuickTest" tests="4" failures="0" errors="0" skipped="0">
  <testcase classname="smoke.QuickTest" name="healthEndpointResponds"/>
  <testcase classname="smoke.QuickTest" name="versionEndpointResponds"/>
  <testcase classname="smoke.QuickTest" name="readinessProbePasses"/>
  <testcase classname="smoke.QuickTest" name="metricsEndpointResponds"/>
</testsuite>

Specifications

Seed
61200
Encoding
UTF-8
Line Endings
LF
Tests
4
Failures
0
Has Time Attribute
false

Testing contract

Expected to recover
Scenario
Handle a JUnit report that omits every duration attribute.
Expected result
The four cases are read without error and the suite duration is reported as unknown rather than as 0.000 seconds.

What is a .xml file?

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a verbose, self-describing markup language using nested tags, attributes, and namespaces to represent structured, hierarchical data. It supports schemas, entities, and validation and underlies many document and data formats. It remains common in enterprise, publishing, and interchange contexts.

How to use this file

Use an example XML file to test parsers, namespace and schema validation, XPath queries, and protection against entity-expansion and external-entity attacks.

How to use this file for testing

“JUnit XML — No Time Attributes” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Error handling, Conversion testing, Code parsing. Deliberately corrupt and invalid files, clearly labelled, for testing how your tool fails.

Documented properties for this file: seed 61200 · UTF-8 · LF. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Test and coverage reports document their totals (suites, cases, passes, failures, skips, covered lines) in the spec table. Point your CI dashboard, coverage gate, or report converter at the file and assert those counts survive; format twins carry identical numbers so a conversion can be scored exactly.

Code examples

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse("structure-missing-time.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
print(root.tag, [c.tag for c in root][:5])

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