I have a Maven project which performs a number of time consuming tests as part of the integration-test Maven cycle. I’m using Jenkins as the CI server.
During the integration test a number of files are produced in the target folder. For example, an “actual” BMP file is produced and compared to an “expected” BMP file. If the test fails, I need to look at the files in the target folder to determine how to deal with the error. Maybe the actual BMP looks fine and so it should be promoted to the new expected BMP. On the other hand, it may reveal a problem that requires a code fix.
The thing is I don’t have any way to get access to these files, other than to ssh into the CI server and manually scp the files over to my own machine for closer inspection. It would be extremely helpful if I could access these files from the Jenkins web interface.
I tried using the build-helper-maven-plugin to attach the relevant files as Maven artifacts, but the problem is that there is no suitable phase in Maven that executes after an integration-test, if any test fails.
What can I do? Can I use the “Copy Artifact” plugin for this?
1) The files in the target folder can be accessed using a link such as /ws/projectname/target/filename…
2) Rather than typing the url each time, the SideBar plugin can be used to add a link to the file to Jenkins’ left menu, making it easily accessible.