How to enable Allure history using Gradle and Junit5? - gradle

Question

I know I could copy the history directory from allure-reports to a generated allure-results, and then do allure generate to get the history to show up, but I am looking for a way to achieve this with the built-in functionality in allure-gradle.
Currently, I run ./gradlew clean test, then ./gradlew allureReport, and this gives me a fresh html report with no history or reruns. I have noticed that the test task deletes the entire allure-reports directory and then re-makes and re-populates it.
Here is my build.gradle:
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenLocal()
jcenter()
}
}
plugins {
// Apply the java-library plugin to add support for Java Library
id 'java-library'
id 'java'
id 'eclipse'
// Allure reporter
id 'io.qameta.allure' version '2.8.1'
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
jcenter()
}
def allureVersion = "2.13.1"
allure {
autoconfigure = true
version = allureVersion
useJUnit5 {
version = '2.0-BETA10'
}
downloadLink = "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/qameta/allure/allure-commandline/2.13.1/allure-commandline-2.13.1.zip"
}
test {
useJUnitPlatform() {
includeEngines 'junit-jupiter'
}
ignoreFailures = true
}
dependencies {
compile group: 'org.junit.jupiter', name: 'junit-jupiter-api', version: '5.6.0'
compile group: 'org.junit.jupiter', name: 'junit-jupiter-engine', version: '5.6.0'
compile group: 'org.junit.platform', name: 'junit-platform-launcher', version: '1.6.0'
// Needed as a workaround for JUnit 5 not failing tests that stopped due to an error message. The fix is in eclipse 4.10
compile group: 'org.junit.vintage', name: 'junit-vintage-engine', version: '5.6.0'
compile group: 'io.qameta.allure', name: 'allure-junit5', version: '2.13.1'
compile group: 'io.qameta.allure', name: 'allure-java-commons', version: '2.13.1'
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java
compile group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-java', version: '3.141.59'
}
I have also tried specifying the results and reports directories to be outside of the build directory, like this:
allure {
autoconfigure = true
version = allureVersion
resultsDir = file('../../allure-results')
reportDir = file('../../allure-report')
...
}
This allows the allure-results folder to keep the previous report, which show up as retries (not quite right), but history still doesn't work.

Answer 1

I have solved this problem by adding at the running test script these lines( I have some tests scuites)
call gradlew test -PsuiteFile=YOUR_TEST_SUITE.xml
mkdir allure-results\history
xcopy build\allure-results\* allure-results\history
allure serve allure-results\history
So I have added folder allure-results\history to keep all results