ExtentReports with Spark Reporter – Beautiful HTML Reporting in Selenium

By Bhau Automation • HTML Reporting for Automation Frameworks

🎯 What You Will Learn

• What are ExtentReports & Spark Reporter?
• Why Spark Reporter is used for HTML reports?
• Step-by-step integration in Selenium Framework
• How to generate, customize & view HTML reports
• Live demo using Java + Selenium
• Best reporting practices for automation

📌 What is ExtentReports?

ExtentReports is one of the most powerful reporting libraries used in Selenium, Appium, API Automation, and frameworks like TestNG & JUnit.

• Generates detailed test execution reports
• Supports screenshots
• Supports logs, labels, categories & devices
• Modern HTML UI

📌 What is Spark Reporter?

Spark Reporter is the latest, modern & lightweight HTML report generator built inside ExtentReports 5.x series. It creates clean, responsive & beautiful HTML dashboards.

✨ Key Features:

• Attractive UI dashboard
• Pass/Fail charts
• Dark & Light themes
• Search filters, timeline & categories
• Screenshot support

🛠 Step-by-Step Integration (Selenium + Java)

1️⃣ Add ExtentReports Dependency

 

  com.aventstack
  extentreports
  5.0.9

2️⃣ Initialize ExtentReports + Spark Reporter

 
ExtentSparkReporter spark = new ExtentSparkReporter("reports/SparkReport.html");
ExtentReports extent = new ExtentReports();
extent.attachReporter(spark);

3️⃣ Create Test Logs

 
ExtentTest test = extent.createTest("Login Test");
test.pass("Browser Launched");
test.info("Entering username");
test.fail("Login failed");

4️⃣ Flush Report

 
extent.flush();

📊 Sample HTML Dashboard Output

• Test Steps
• Pass/Fail Results
• System Environment Details
• Failure Screenshot
• Execution Timeline

🧪 Best Practices for Reporting

• Create separate folder for each execution
• Add screenshot on failure
• Use categories like regression, sanity, smoke
• Print logs (info, warning, fail, skip)
• Integrate with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

🎯 Interview Questions

🎥 Watch the Full Tutorial

👉 Watch: ExtentReports + Spark Reporter Tutorial

✔️ Key Takeaways

• Spark Reporter creates beautiful HTML dashboards
• Integration is easy with Selenium
• Supports screenshots, logs & categories
• Must-have for any professional automation framework

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