Record property supported like in googletest?

[BlueAndi]

The idea is that in the test function, I would like to set a key/value pair, which will be part of the test report.
This is similar to googletest with the record property.

Does something similar exists for Unity? Especially with the log factory report?

[mvandervoord]

Hi @BlueAndi -- there is a TEST_MESSAGE and a TEST_PRINTF macro, both of which will allow you to output additional information into the test stream. If you're using Ceedling, then these will get picked up and displayed as information for that particular test. The TEST_MESSAGE macro is always available. To use TEST_PRINTF you need to enable it by defining UNITY_INCLUDE_PRINT_FORMATTED

[BlueAndi]

Hi @mvandervoord, thanks for the hint. TEST_MESSAGE shows the additional information in the test stream, but is there a chance to get it with the log factory report in the e.g. generated tests_report.json for every passed or failed test?
I see that with junit the message is printed to ```<system-out>...</system-out>", but the relation to the test case got lost.

Example:

void test_MyComponent_myTestCase(void)
{
    TEST_MESSAGE("key:value");

    ....
}

results in tests_report.json

{
  "FailedTests": [],
  "PassedTests": [
    {
      "file": "test/test_MyComponent.c",
      "test": "test_MyComponent_myTestCase",
      "message": "key:value"
    }

    ....

or like

{
  "FailedTests": [],
  "PassedTests": [
    {
      "file": "test/test_MyComponent.c",
      "test": "test_MyComponent_myTestCase",
      "key": "value"
    }

    ....

googletest example:

    <testcase name="myTestCase" file="test/testMyComponent.cpp" line="146" status="run" result="completed" time="0.002" timestamp="2025-06-26T00:13:53.765" classname="TSGreet">
      <properties>
        <property name="key" value="value"/>
      </properties>
    </testcase>

[BlueAndi]

I guess there is no dedicated solution for what I am searching for, so I created a custom report called by the log factory, see
https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Ceedling/tree/master/plugins/report_tests_log_factory#creating-your-own-custom-report

The stdout is parsed via regex to detect the key/value pairs and add by TEST_MESSAGE.