Adding Automatic Comment/Link to Test (xUnit) Results

[AndyB]

Hi,

I'm using the xUnit plugin to report test results - which works very well. On the report page there is an option to add a comment - what I'd like to be able to do is set that comment automatically at test completion time. The idea is to embed a link to more detailed test results (which are hosted on dedicated test server).  Embedding the link manually works OK, but I need to be able to set the comment automatically when the test finishes. Does anyone know if this is possible? If not, would this be a feature request for the xUnit plugin, or is this done at a higher level?

Thanks for your help
Andy

[Grégory Boissinot]

It could be a feature request.
However, is it a static link or a dynamic link attached to a test or a set of tests?
Additionnally, where the link is retrieved (from the Jenkins job config, in the test result, ...)?

[AndyB]

Hi Grégory,

The link/comment would be dynamic. What happens is that when we've built a test it's dispatched to a test server and we get a test ID as a response. We use that to query the XML results file from the server. The idea would be to use that ID to build a link to the server hosted results clickable from the Jenkins test results page. We already embed links back to the Jenkins server from our test server (using JOB_NAME,BUILD_NUMBER), so adding this functionality would allow us to easily go backwards and forwards between the two servers.

It would be easy to create a file that holds the link/comment, or it could be added to the XML test results as a new element/attribute. If you think it's reasonable I'll add a feature request to the plugin for this.

Thanks
Andy