allure-framework / allure-framework/allure-python

Robot Framework Allure listener generates a huge amount of files

Open
#814 6 comments 10 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
Python
Stars
814
Forks
260
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

**Describe the bug**
When I use the Allure listener with Robot-Framework, a huge amount of files are generated.
For example : around 3000 json & html files (13MB !) are generated for a couple of basics Robot-Framework tests.
The final Allure report generated from the same tests also contains around 1500 files (6MB).

This situation has a limited impact for some basics tests, but, in case of my real tests campaign, more than 800.000 files are generated, for more than 1GB size ! This lead to memory issues or disk spaces failures.

**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Start a basic Robot-Framework test campaign with the Allure listener ( --listener "allure_robotframework;allure-export"
2. Check the number of files in the "allure-export" folder and its size.
3. Generate the Allure report from the previous export files.
4. Check the number of files in the report folder, and its size .

**Expected behavior**
The listener output and Allure report should be optimized to reduce number of files generated and their size.

**Environment (please complete the following information):**

Allure version: 2.12.1
Test framework: robotframework@3.0.2
Allure adaptor: allure-robotframework@2.8.6

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.