I've read over the Jenkins site and its JUnit plugin, and for some reason something that is very basic is just not apparent to me.
Jenkins has an Email-ext
plugin for sending custom/advanced notification emails whenever a build is ran. In these emails you can place "content tokens" that are runtime variables that get replaced with dynamic values when the email is being generated.
One of these tokens is TEST_COUNTS
which allows you to display the number of JUnit tests that ran, or which failed, etc.
How does one go about getting Jenkins to display this information correctly? Is there a plugin I need, and if so, which one? I have my build running JUnit and generating an XML report. I assume Jenkins somehow parses JUnit results out of that XML and uses it to give values to that token.
But on the other hand, I've read "literature" (mailing list posts) that seems to suggest that in order to use that token you need to use Jenkins to run the unit tests, not a junit
Ant task from inside your build script.
Can someone clarify this for me and perhaps even set out the "order of operations" for what steps I need to take in order to be able to make use of this token?
It would be supremely useful to get test counts in our build notifications.