Question

A development team runs unit tests inside a CodeBuild project as part of their CodePipeline. The tests already produce a JUnit XML file in the build environment, but the team wants the pass/fail results and trends to appear natively in the CodeBuild console without building a custom parsing solution. What is the MOST appropriate way to achieve this?

Accepted Answer

Add a 'reports' section to the buildspec that defines a report group with the JUnit file path and 'file-format: JUNITXML' so CodeBuild ingests the test results.

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Upload the JUnit XML to an S3 bucket during the build and configure a CloudWatch dashboard to visualize the parsed results.

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Publish the test outcome as a CloudWatch custom metric using the AWS CLI in the buildspec 'post_build' phase and create an alarm on failures.

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Add the JUnit XML as a secondary artifact in the buildspec so CodePipeline can display the results in the pipeline execution history.