History won't be generated

[johnmondeen]

I am using: protractor, jasmine-allure-reporter, allure-commandline

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I had the problem, that no history would be generated over multiple testsuite executions.
After understanding the purpose of the history-feature (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47514696/what-exactly-are-history-and-retries-meant-to-mean-in-allure/47533045#47533045), more research and lots of trying out different things, I found this solution:

Before a new testsuite execution, the "history"-folder from "allure-report"-folder is supposed to be copied into the "allure-results"-folder. This way, allure will generate the right history from the saved "history"-folder.

My fix:
Execute the test via .bat and copy the folder beforehand:

if [[ -e ./allure-report/history ]]; then
  if [[ -e ./allure-results/history ]]; then
    rm -rf ./allure-results/history
  fi
  mv ./allure-report/history ./allure-results/history
fi
protractor conf.js
allure generate -c

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Is there a better way to do this?
Shouldn't this happen by default?

[baev]

yeah, thats how it works at the moment. BTW we are going to implement allure config that will allow you to specify history folder via commandline:

$ allure generate --history /my/local/history

or using yaml configuration file

# allure.yml
history: /my/local/history
other.configs...

and then such config will be used during report generation

$ allure generate --config my/allure/config 

[johnmondeen]

I have found an issue with this solution. See the following scenario:

(Say we have two testuites, I'll call A and B, and a testcase, I'll call X.)

1. Execute X in A
   --> A listed, has no history (as expected)
2. Execute X in B
   --> B listed, has no history (as expected)
   --> X from 1) now in history of A (not expected?!)
3. Execute X in B again
   --> B listed, has history --> X from 2) (as expected)
   --> X from 1) and X from 2) now in history of A (not expected?!)

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Looking into the files, I found, that the doubled history-entries have different uid s, but their time-stamps are the same.

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How do you generate a proper history, when not continuing the execution of a testsuite, but running the same testcase in a different testsuite?

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Also: Why will the history only store up to five testcases? Can one somehow change that number?

[baev]

Why will the history only store up to five testcases? Can one somehow change that number?

There is an issue #347

[baev]

#697

[baev]

I have found an issue with this solution. See the following scenario:

@johnmondeen please create a separate issue. Also provide sample project to reproduce the problem