diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 64de80377..822a1c455 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1948,6 +1948,33 @@ see ${build.junit.reports} / ${antunit.reports}
       <fileset dir="${antunit.xml}" includes="TEST-*.xml" />
     </length>
   </target>
+  
+  
+  <target name="printFailingTests">
+    <property name="failingtests.dir" value="${build.dir}/errors"/>
+    <mkdir dir=""/>
+    <xslt 
+      style="${etc.dir}/printFailingTests.xsl" 
+      destdir="${failingtests.dir}" extension=".txt"
+      basedir="${build.dir}" includes="testcases/**/TEST-*.xml,antunit/xml/TEST-*.xml"
+    />
+    <echo>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</echo>
+    <echo>| FAILING TESTS:</echo>
+    <echo>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</echo>
+    <concat>
+      <!-- generated message files if they arent empty -->
+      <fileset dir="${failingtests.dir}">
+        <size value="0" when="more"/>
+      </fileset>
+      <!-- 'skip' empty lines -->
+      <filterchain>
+        <linecontains>
+          <contains value="|"/>
+        </linecontains>
+      </filterchain>
+    </concat>
+    <echo>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</echo>
+  </target>
 
   <!--
        ===================================================================
diff --git a/src/etc/printFailingTests.xsl b/src/etc/printFailingTests.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4f2f7937e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/etc/printFailingTests.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!--
+  This stylesheet is for work in build.xml:printFailingTests.
+  It extracts all failing tests from a given testsuite (JUnit+AntUnit XML format)
+  and writes that into a text file.
+  All text files are written to STDOUT via <concat>.
+-->
+<xsl:stylesheet
+  version="1.0"
+  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
+
+    <!-- Output format so no XML header would be written -->
+    <xsl:output indent="no" method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
+    <!-- What is the name of the current testsuite (JUnit class or AntUnit buildfile) -->
+    <xsl:variable name="testsuite" select="/testsuite/@name"/>
+
+
+<!-- failing tests: suitename.testname : message; Leading pipe for line break -->
+<xsl:template match="testcase[failure|error]">
+| <xsl:value-of select="$testsuite"/>.<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>() : <xsl:value-of select="failure/@message"/><xsl:value-of select="error/@message"/>
+</xsl:template>
+
+<!-- Supress log output from the tests like stacktraces -->
+<xsl:template match="text()"/>
+
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
+