diff --git a/buildScripts/tests.ant.xml b/buildScripts/tests.ant.xml
index 961531af..dc0b4147 100644
--- a/buildScripts/tests.ant.xml
+++ b/buildScripts/tests.ant.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
 This buildfile is part of projectlombok.org. It takes care of compiling and running tests.
 	</description>
 	
+	<target name="test.formatter.compile" depends="deps">
+		<mkdir dir="build/ant" />
+		<javac includeantruntime="true" srcdir="src/support" includes="**/SimpleTestFormatter.java" destdir="build/ant">
+			<classpath refid="cp.test" />
+		</javac>
+	</target>
+	
 	<target name="test.compile" depends="deps, compile" description="compiles the tests" unless="skip.tests">
 		<mkdir dir="build/tests" />
 		<ivy:compile destdir="build/teststubs" source="1.6" target="1.6" ecj="true" nowarn="true">
@@ -57,32 +64,33 @@ This buildfile is part of projectlombok.org. It takes care of compiling and runn
 	
 	<property name="test.limitmodules">--limit-modules java.base,jdk.unsupported</property>
 	
-	<target name="test.javac6" depends="test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac6 as underlying compiler">
+	<target name="test.javac6" depends="test.formatter.compile, test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac6 as underlying compiler">
 		<echo>Running TestJavac on JVM${ant.java.version}, with lowest supported javac: 1.6.</echo>
 		<junit haltonfailure="yes" fork="true" forkmode="once">
 			<jvmarg value="-Xbootclasspath/a:${jdk6-rt.loc}" />
 			<jvmarg line="${test.limitmodules}" />
 			<jvmarg value="-Ddelombok.bootclasspath=${jdk6-rt.loc}" />
 			<jvmarg value="-Dsun.boot.class.path=${jdk6-rt.loc}" />
-			<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
+			<formatter classname="lombok.ant.SimpleTestFormatter" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.test" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.stripe" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.javac6" />
 			<classpath refid="packing.basedirs.path" />
+			<classpath location="build/ant" />
 			<classpath location="build/tests" />
 			<classpath location="build/teststubs" />
 			<test name="lombok.TestJavac" />
 		</junit>
 	</target>
 	
-	<target name="test.javac8" depends="test.compile, deps.jdk8-runtime" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac8 as underlying compiler">
+	<target name="test.javac8" depends="test.formatter.compile, test.compile, deps.jdk8-runtime" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac8 as underlying compiler">
 		<echo>Running TestJavac on JVM${ant.java.version}, with javac: 1.8.</echo>
 		<junit haltonfailure="yes" fork="true" forkmode="once">
 			<jvmarg value="-Xbootclasspath/a:${jdk8-rt.loc}" />
 			<jvmarg line="${test.limitmodules}" />
 			<jvmarg value="-Ddelombok.bootclasspath=${jdk8-rt.loc}" />
 			<jvmarg value="-Dsun.boot.class.path=${jdk8-rt.loc}" />
-			<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
+			<formatter classname="lombok.ant.SimpleTestFormatter" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.test" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.stripe" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.javac8" />
@@ -100,7 +108,7 @@ This buildfile is part of projectlombok.org. It takes care of compiling and runn
 			<echo>Running TestJavac with JVM ${jvm.loc.@{version}}.</echo>
 		
 			<junit haltonfailure="yes" fork="true" forkmode="once" jvm="${jvm.loc.@{version}}/bin/${exe.java}">
-				<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
+			<formatter classname="lombok.ant.SimpleTestFormatter" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
 				<classpath refid="cp.test" />
 				<classpath refid="cp.stripe" />
 				<classpath refid="packing.basedirs.path" />
@@ -111,18 +119,18 @@ This buildfile is part of projectlombok.org. It takes care of compiling and runn
 		</sequential>
 	</macrodef>
 	
-	<target name="test.javac11" depends="test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac11 as underlying compiler">
+	<target name="test.javac11" depends="test.formatter.compile, test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac11 as underlying compiler">
 		<test.javacX version="11" />
 	</target>
 	
-	<target name="test.javac14" depends="test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac14 as underlying compiler">
+	<target name="test.javac14" depends="test.formatter.compile, test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using javac14 as underlying compiler">
 		<test.javacX version="14" />
 	</target>
 	
-	<target name="test.javacCurrent" depends="test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using its javac as underlying compiler">
+	<target name="test.javacCurrent" depends="test.formatter.compile, test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, using its javac as underlying compiler">
 		<echo>Running TestJavac on JVM${ant.java.version}, with the javac built into your VM distributon.</echo>
 		<junit haltonfailure="yes" fork="true" forkmode="once">
-			<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
+			<formatter classname="lombok.ant.SimpleTestFormatter" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.test" />
 			<classpath refid="cp.stripe" />
 			<classpath refid="packing.basedirs.path" />
@@ -140,7 +148,7 @@ This buildfile is part of projectlombok.org. It takes care of compiling and runn
 				<jvmarg value="-Xbootclasspath/a:${jdk8-rt.loc}" />
 				<jvmarg value="-Ddelombok.bootclasspath=${jdk8-rt.loc}" />
 				<jvmarg value="-javaagent:dist/lombok.jar" />
-				<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
+				<formatter classname="lombok.ant.SimpleTestFormatter" usefile="false" unless="tests.quiet" />
 				<classpath refid="cp.test" />
 				<classpath refid="cp.stripe" />
 				<classpath refid="cp.eclipse-@{version}" />
@@ -151,11 +159,11 @@ This buildfile is part of projectlombok.org. It takes care of compiling and runn
 		</sequential>
 	</macrodef>
 	
-	<target name="test.eclipse-oxygen" depends="test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, testing the oxygen release of eclipse">
+	<target name="test.eclipse-oxygen" depends="test.formatter.compile, test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, testing the oxygen release of eclipse">
 		<test.eclipse-X version="oxygen" />
 	</target>
 	
-	<target name="test.eclipse-202006" depends="test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, testing the 2020-03 release of eclipse">
+	<target name="test.eclipse-202006" depends="test.formatter.compile, test.compile" description="runs the tests on your default VM, testing the 2020-03 release of eclipse">
 		<fetchdep.eclipse version="202006" />
 		<test.eclipse-X version="202006" />
 	</target>
diff --git a/src/support/lombok/ant/SimpleTestFormatter.java b/src/support/lombok/ant/SimpleTestFormatter.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f605d06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/support/lombok/ant/SimpleTestFormatter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package lombok.ant;
+
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintStream;
+
+import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
+import junit.framework.Test;
+
+import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitResultFormatter;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTest;
+
+public class SimpleTestFormatter implements JUnitResultFormatter {
+    private PrintStream out = System.out;
+
+    @Override
+    public void addError(Test test, Throwable error) {
+        logResult(test, "ERR");
+        out.println(error.getMessage());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void addFailure(Test test, AssertionFailedError failure) {
+        logResult(test, "FAIL");
+        out.println(failure.getMessage());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void endTest(Test test) {
+        logResult(test, "PASS");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void startTest(Test test) { }
+
+    @Override
+    public void endTestSuite(JUnitTest testSuite) throws BuildException { }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setOutput(OutputStream out) {
+        this.out = new PrintStream(out);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setSystemError(String err) {
+        // don't echo test error output
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setSystemOutput(String out) {
+        // don't echo test output
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void startTestSuite(JUnitTest testSuite) throws BuildException { }
+
+    private void logResult(Test test, String result) {
+        out.println("[" + result + "] " + String.valueOf(test));
+        out.flush();
+    }
+}