diff -u b/src/journal.sh b/src/journal.sh

--- b/src/journal.sh

+++ b/src/journal.sh

@@ -115,12 +115,13 @@

     export __INTERNAL_METAFILE_INDENT_LEVEL=0

     __INTERNAL_PHASE_TYPE=()

     __INTERNAL_PHASE_NAME=()

-    export __INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA="$BEAKERLIB_DIR/PersistentData"

+    export __INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA="$BEAKERLIB_DIR/PersistentData"

+    export __INTERNAL_TEST_RESULTS="$BEAKERLIB_DIR/TestResults"

     export __INTERNAL_JOURNAL_OPEN=''

     __INTERNAL_PersistentDataLoad

     export __INTERNAL_PHASES_FAILED=0

     export __INTERNAL_PHASES_PASSED=0

-    export __INTERNAL_PHASES_SKIPED=0

+    export __INTERNAL_PHASES_SKIPPED=0

     export __INTERNAL_PHASES_WORST_RESULT='PASS'

     export __INTERNAL_TEST_STATE=0

     __INTERNAL_PHASE_TXTLOG_START=()

@@ -249,6 +250,7 @@

     echo "#End of metafile" >> $__INTERNAL_BEAKERLIB_METAFILE

     __INTERNAL_JournalXMLCreate

+    __INTERNAL_TestResultsSave

 }

@@ -346,11 +348,11 @@

 __INTERNAL_update_journal_txt() {

   local textfile

-  local duration=$(($__INTERNAL_TIMESTAMP - $__INTERNAL_STARTTIME))

   local endtime

+  __INTERNAL_DURATION=$(($__INTERNAL_TIMESTAMP - $__INTERNAL_STARTTIME))

   printf -v endtime "%($__INTERNAL_TIMEFORMAT_LONG)T %s" $__INTERNAL_TIMESTAMP "(still running)"

   [[ -n "$__INTERNAL_ENDTIME" ]] && printf -v endtime "%($__INTERNAL_TIMEFORMAT_LONG)T" $__INTERNAL_ENDTIME

-  local sed_patterns="0,/    Test finished : /s/^(    Test finished : ).*\$/\1$endtime/;0,/    Test duration : /s/^(    Test duration : ).*\$/\1$duration seconds/"

+  local sed_patterns="0,/    Test finished : /s/^(    Test finished : ).*\$/\1$endtime/;0,/    Test duration : /s/^(    Test duration : ).*\$/\1$__INTERNAL_DURATION seconds/"

   for textfile in "$__INTERNAL_BEAKERLIB_JOURNAL_COLORED" "$__INTERNAL_BEAKERLIB_JOURNAL_TXT"; do

     sed -r -i "$sed_patterns" "$textfile"

   done

@@ -439,6 +441,43 @@

     return 0

 }

+

+# Creation of TestResults file

+# Each line of the file contains TESTRESULT_VAR=$RESULT_VALUE

+# so the file can be sourced afterwards

+__INTERNAL_TestResultsSave(){

+    # Set exit code of the test according to worst phase result

+    case "$__INTERNAL_PHASES_WORST_RESULT" in

+    PASS)

+        __TESTRESULT_RESULT_ECODE="0"

+        ;;

+    WARN)

+        __TESTRESULT_RESULT_ECODE="10"

+        ;;

+    FAIL)

+        __TESTRESULT_RESULT_ECODE="20"

+        ;;

+    *)

+        __TESTRESULT_RESULT_ECODE="30"

+        ;;

+    esac

+

+    cat > "$__INTERNAL_TEST_RESULTS" <

+# This is a result file of the test in a 'sourceable' form.

+# Description of individual variables can be found in beakerlib man page.

+TESTRESULT_RESULT_STRING=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_WORST_RESULT

+TESTRESULT_RESULT_ECODE=$__TESTRESULT_RESULT_ECODE

+TESTRESULT_PHASES_PASSED=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_PASSED

+TESTRESULT_PHASES_FAILED=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_FAILED

+TESTRESULT_PHASES_SKIPPED=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_SKIPPED

+TESTRESULT_ASSERTS_FAILED=$__INTERNAL_TEST_STATE

+TESTRESULT_STARTTIME=$__INTERNAL_STARTTIME

+TESTRESULT_ENDTIME=$__INTERNAL_ENDTIME

+TESTRESULT_DURATION=$__INTERNAL_DURATION

+TESTRESULT_BEAKERLIB_DIR=$BEAKERLIB_DIR

+EOF

+}

+

 # backward compatibility

 rlCreateLogFromJournal(){

     rlLogWarning "rlCreateLogFromJournal is obsoleted by rlJournalPrintText"

@@ -891,29 +930,29 @@

 }

-# whenever any of the persistend variable is touched,

+# whenever any of the persistent variable is touched,

 # functions __INTERNAL_PersistentDataLoad and __INTERNAL_PersistentDataSave

 # should be called before and after that respectively.

 __INTERNAL_PersistentDataSave() {

-  cat > "$__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA" <

+  cat > "$__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA" <

 __INTERNAL_STARTTIME=$__INTERNAL_STARTTIME

 __INTERNAL_TEST_STATE=$__INTERNAL_TEST_STATE

 __INTERNAL_PHASES_PASSED=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_PASSED

 __INTERNAL_PHASES_FAILED=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_FAILED

-__INTERNAL_PHASES_SKIPED=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_SKIPED

+__INTERNAL_PHASES_SKIPPED=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_SKIPPED

 __INTERNAL_JOURNAL_OPEN=$__INTERNAL_JOURNAL_OPEN

 __INTERNAL_PHASES_WORST_RESULT=$__INTERNAL_PHASES_WORST_RESULT

 EOF

-declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_FAILED >> $__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA

-declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_PASSED >> $__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA

-declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_STARTTIME >> $__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA

-declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_TXTLOG_START >> $__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA

-declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_METRICS >> $__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA

+declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_FAILED >> $__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA

+declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_PASSED >> $__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA

+declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_STARTTIME >> $__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA

+declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_TXTLOG_START >> $__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA

+declare -p __INTERNAL_PHASE_METRICS >> $__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA

 }

 __INTERNAL_PersistentDataLoad() {

-  [[ -r "$__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA" ]] && . "$__INTERNAL_PRESISTENT_DATA"

+  [[ -r "$__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA" ]] && . "$__INTERNAL_PERSISTENT_DATA"

 }

 # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

only in patch2:

unchanged:

--- a/src/beakerlib.sh

+++ b/src/beakerlib.sh

@@ -96,6 +96,48 @@ See the BKRDOC section for more information about Automated documentation genera

 =for comment beakerlib-manual-footer

+=head1 OUTPUT FILES

+

+Location of test results related output files can be configured by setting BEAKERLIB_DIR variable before running the test. If it is not set, temporary directory is created.

+

+=head2 journal.txt

+

+Journal in human readable form.

+

+=head2 journal.xml

+

+Journal in XML format, requires python. This dependency can be avoided if the test is run with variable BEAKERLIB_JOURNAL set to 0 in which case journal.xml is not created.

+

+=head3 XSLT

+

+XML journal can be transformed through XSLT template. Which template is used is configurable by setting BEAKERLIB_JOURNAL variable. Value can be either filename in which case beakerlib will try to use $INSTALL_DIR/xslt-template/$filename (e.g.: /usr/share/beakerlib/xstl-templates/xunit.xsl) or it can be path to a template anywhere on the system.

+

+=head2 TestResults

+

+Overall results of the test in a 'sourceable' form. Each line contains a pair VAR=VALUE. All variable names have 'TESTRESULT_' prefix.

+

+=head3 List of variables:

+

+TESTRESULT_RESULT_STRING - Result of the test in a string, e.g.: PASS, FAIL, WARN.

+

+TESTRESULT_RESULT_ECODE - Result of the test as an integer, 0 equals to PASS.

+

+TESTRESULT_PHASES_PASSED - Number of phases that ended with PASS.

+

+TESTRESULT_PHASES_FAILED - Number of phases that ended with non-PASS result.

+

+TESTRESULT_PHASES_SKIPPED - Number of skipped phases.

+

+TESTRESULT_ASSERTS_FAILED - Number of asserts that ended with non-PASS result in the whole test.

+

+TESTRESULT_STARTTIME - Time when test started in seconds since epoch.

+

+TESTRESULT_ENDTIME - Time when test ended in seconds since epoch.

+

+TESTRESULT_DURATION - Duration of the test run in seconds.

+

+TESTRESULT_BEAKERLIB_DIR - Directory with test results files.

+

 =head1 EXAMPLES

 =head2 Simple