[JENKINS-20444] Suggestion about improve of work with XML format of JUNIT

Hi Guys,

History of question is:

We have own system of tests for our C++ product,

which is in develop more of 10 years.

Now we consider plug this under Jenkins, so we try

to generated minimal required XML file in JUNIT format.

There was hope that may be, we can put into XML file only list of failed tests, and avoid list successful tests. Something like this:

=====================================================





















=====================================================

But this not works ....

Jenkins simply ignores attributes of line:

And simply try parse all existed tests in XML, and count self failed and successful tests.

Why is this?

Above XML file is correct from any point of view.

And it is minimal to make Jenkins record results ...

And lets assume, that for our team it is okay to see only list of failed tests... No many sense to see 12500 successful tests on HTML pages of Jenkins. We have for this own log file.

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Originally reported by ruslan_zasukhin, imported from: Suggestion about improve of work with XML format of JUNIT

• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): junit-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-11-26
  

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Hi Guys,


History of question is:

    We have own system of tests for our C++ product,

    which is in develop more of 10 years.


    Now we consider plug this under Jenkins, so we try 

    to generated minimal required XML file in JUNIT format.


There was hope that may be, we can put into XML file only list of failed tests, and avoid list successful tests. Something like this:


=====================================================

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<testsuites name="All Tests" tests="12345" failures="3" errors="0" time="350">

    <testcase name="Addition" classname="" time="100">

        <failure message="Value of: add(1, 1); Actual: 1;Expected: 2" type=""/>

        <failure message="Value of: sin(0); Actual: 1;Expected: 0" type=""/>

    </testcase>

   <testcase name="Zip Compresion" classname="" time="250">

       <failure message="Value of: zipme(); Actual: 1;Expected: 2" type=""/>

   </testcase>

</testsuites>   

=====================================================


But this not works ....


Jenkins simply ignores attributes of line:


<testsuites name="All Tests" tests="12345" failures="3" errors="0" time="350">


And simply try parse all existed tests in XML, and count self failed and successful tests.


Why is this?    


Above XML file is correct from any point of view. 

And it is minimal to make Jenkins record results ... 


And lets assume, that for our team it is okay to see only list of failed tests... No many sense to see 12500 successful tests on HTML pages of Jenkins. We have for this own log file.

• environment: not matters

Start by reading the junit-plugin's handling of JUnit XML reports, focusing on how testsuites attributes and testcase elements are interpreted. Determine the expected behavior when successful tests are omitted, then define tests and acceptance criteria for recording only the supplied failed tests or document why the format cannot support it.

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