diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 025c94cb..1eb1cdee 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 **Added**
 
 - feat: store parse failed api/testcase/testsuite file path in `logs/xxx.parse_failed.json`
+- feat: add exception SummaryEmpty
 
 **Fixed**
 
diff --git a/httprunner/exceptions.py b/httprunner/exceptions.py
index 403c5ff8..ad05ea53 100644
--- a/httprunner/exceptions.py
+++ b/httprunner/exceptions.py
@@ -74,3 +74,8 @@ class ApiNotFound(NotFoundError):
 
 class TestcaseNotFound(NotFoundError):
     pass
+
+
+class SummaryEmpty(MyBaseError):
+    """ test result summary data is empty
+    """
diff --git a/httprunner/report/html/gen_report.py b/httprunner/report/html/gen_report.py
index dc23d5af..43092849 100644
--- a/httprunner/report/html/gen_report.py
+++ b/httprunner/report/html/gen_report.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from datetime import datetime
 from jinja2 import Template
 
 from httprunner import logger
+from httprunner.exceptions import SummaryEmpty
 
 
 def gen_html_report(summary, report_template=None, report_dir=None, report_file=None):
@@ -17,6 +18,10 @@ def gen_html_report(summary, report_template=None, report_dir=None, report_file=
         report_file (str): specify html report file path, this has higher priority than specifying report dir.
 
     """
+    if not summary["time"] or summary["stat"]["testcases"]["total"] == 0:
+        logger.log_error("test result summary is empty ! {}".format(summary))
+        raise SummaryEmpty
+
     if not report_template:
         report_template = os.path.join(
             os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),