continuous integration - Visual reporting for Karate without Jenkins CI

Question

I'm trying to get reporting working for Karate DSL, and it's proven a challenge because my team uses Circle CI instead of Jenkins. Cucumber reporting seems to only work for Jenkins.

I've had a look at this documentation, here:

https://github.com/intuit/karate/tree/master/karate-demo#example-report https://github.com/jenkinsci/cucumber-reports-plugin

I was wondering if there is a circle friendly equivalent you could recommend? It'd be even better if the reports could be generated in the terminal. It's going to be a hard sell to convince my team to change CI tools just so I can implement a test framework.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here's what I suggest:

If you follow the demo / doc instructions - you will get the HTML reports in say target/cucumber-html-reports, and this is "pure Maven and Java", no dependency on CircleCI at all so far.

Now all you need to do is somehow make these HTML reports accessible via the web. In Jenkins, there is an HTML Publisher Plugin. I am not familiar with CircleCI but a quick search suggests that there is a way to expose links to build artifacts.

Also note that when you follow the demo, Java JUnit XML reports would also be output to target/cucumber-reports. It looks like CircleCI has support for these which means that it should be able to derive the build pass/fail status and stats if configured right.

Also note that Karate now enables you to write custom reports: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66773839/143475