Display history of a single test result in Jenkins - additional plugin or config issue?

Question

Currently our Jenkins server only displays a history/graph for the overall number of passed/skipped/failed tests - I'm assuming that's the behavior out of the box.

If you select a single test, you'll get information for how long the test was failing (assuming it did fail).

However, we'd like to see is a history for that single test across the different builds to identify whether the test has been failing in the past (and when) even though it just passed. If you find a build where it failed, you could click on it, and investigate what might have caused the failure; if it passes again, you could check whether something actually fixed the test, or whether it was failing randomly all along.

Is this something that can be done somehow through the config, or do we need an additional plugin for this? If yes, which one?

Not sure if this makes much difference, but we're using Java (Maven) & TestNG (Surefire).

Answer 1

Both the TestNG plugin and the JUnit plugin will actually display history of the test results.

You just need to pick a given result and then:

• For JUnit click on "History" on the left side, and
• For TestNG click you will see the history in the graph above the result. You can just click on the bars in the bars to see the older results, and also if you click closer to the edge, the scope of the test results will adjust