how to get Hudson CI to include test results in the status email

Question

I've been evaluating Hudson, with an eye to convert to it from CC.NET. In CC.NET, I've gotten my emails to include test statistics, such as # of tests run, how many failed, etc. It even shows in red "this project has no tests" which is a great motivator, right?

Is there any way to accomplish this in Hudson?

I've tried the email-ext plugin, because I'm told that it can get test output and other great stuff into the email, but I just can't figure out "how."

It looks like I need to put a token in for "content" but I dont see any token available that looks like "test results" to me :) Or any that would parse some xml that I provide a path to, or such.

Has anyone done this and can help? Thanks!

Answer 1

From the Email-ext plugin wiki page:

To see a list of all available email tokens and what they display, you can click the "?" (question mark) at the top of the email-ext section on the project configuration screen.

I can't check if it's listed in the online help right now but I think you're looking for the $FAILED_TESTS token.

If you need more guidance, check this blog post: Continuous Integration with Hudson, ColdFusion, and MXUnit: Advanced Notification Control. There are some screenshots that might help.

Answer 2

See this question - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2845020/having-latest-tests-results-info-in-the-notified-email-with-hudson . It seems like the only answer is to hack in your own solution, until Email-ext is improved.