Getting output from remote hudson builds - jenkins

I have recently added several Hudson agent machines to a working controller.
Some of the builds have result files (Doxygen output, Boost unit test results, cppcheck) which are published using the relevant plugins.
If these builds run on the controller, the output files are published successfully, but if they run on an agent, the build fails because the files cannot be found.
The plugins seem to be looking for the output files on the controller, when of course, they are on the agent.
Is there a way to fix this?
Plugins used:
- Jenkins Cppcheck Plug-in V1.2
- Doxygen Plugin V0.9
- HTML Publisher plugin V0.6
Edit:
Tried archiving suggestion, but I can't get it to work. cppcheck.xml is archived correctly and exists in the relative directory ../lastSuccessful/archive/cppcheck.xml
Hudson log:
Archiving artifacts
[Cppcheck] Starting the cppcheck analysis.
[Cppcheck] No cppcheck test report file(s) were found with the pattern
'../lastSuccessful/archive/cppcheck.xml' relative to
'/home/hudson/.hudson/jobs/1.11-IntegrationDebug/workspace'.
Did you enter a pattern relative to the correct directory?
Did you generate the XML report(s) for Cppcheck?
[Cppcheck] Parsing throws exceptions. No cppcheck test report file(s) were
found with the pattern '../lastSuccessful/archive/cppcheck.xml' relative to
'/home/hudson/.hudson/jobs/1.11-IntegrationDebug/workspace'.

Workaround: copy artifacts into your workspace and publish from there.

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Jenkins Version : 2.176.2
Executing Selenium tests via Jenkins : Ecplsie+mvn+Jenkins
Selenium Workspace Folder : C:\Users\admin\eclipse-workspace\ACA
The actual location of the testng-results.xml: C:\Users\admin\eclipse-workspace\ACA\target\surefire-reports\testng-results.xml
Jenkins Insatlled / Home Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins
Building in workspace C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\ACATestAutomationJob
Executing Maven: -B -f C:\Users\admin\eclipse-workspace\ACA\pom.xml clean install
TestNG Reports Processing: START
Looking for TestNG results report in workspace using pattern: **/target/surefire-reports/testng-results.xml
Did not find any matching files.
How do i make jenkins locate this testng-results.xml?
Thanks,
Raj
Look into Jenkins Console Output, it should report where the build is running (so called WORKSPACE) and where TestNG Results Plugin attempts to locate the results file:
The path to the TestNG results file must be relative to the WORKSPACE and have the syntax of Ant FileSet
If you're uncertain regarding how to properly build the path to the test artifacts - post the full paths to WORKSPACE and the testng-results.xml / emailable-report.html and we will help you to come up with the correct definitions.
In the meantime you could use wildcard paths like:
**/testng-results.xml
so Jenkins will scan its WORKSPACE recursively looking for the testng-results.xml file in all available locations
Your install command also looks suspicious, normally you should not be putting your test artifacts to the Maven repository so you might want to use mvn test or mvn verify instead.
More information:
Turbo Boost Your Digital App Test Automation with Jenkins
https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html

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I have installed Jenkins, create a project and configure it.
I run into a problem, Jenkins do everithing great except documentation generating.
Could anyone point me where I have done mistake, and how fix it?
Thank you.
------------------------ New information ----------
Console output:
I have renamed doc to javadoc directory, but it isn't help.
Here is screenshot of javadoc directory contents in console, it is clear that Jenkins plugin didn't generate documentation, but why?
It sounds like you are expecting the Jenkins plugin to produce the documentation. The Jenkins plugin merely copies files from the job's workspace folder to the build's archive area and provides a link to it. If your build steps don't produce Javadoc, then Jenkins won't be able to archive and provide a link to it.
Does your pom file include the maven-javadoc-plugin?
Are your build steps invoking a goal that includes Javadoc generation?
For example, "mvn jar" would compile Java and build the jar but not build the javadocs. Clearly you have executed a goal that executes the tests and provides a code coverage report, but that does not trigger the Javadoc goals either. You would need to make sure your build steps include a javadoc goal - i.e., mvn javadoc:javadoc. The standard goals can be found here: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/plugin-info.html .

Jenkins TestNG plugin does not fetch results from the test-results.xml file

In my project workspace, the test-results.xml file exists inside the target\surefire-reports\testng-results.xml directory. But Jenkins fails to read the XML file and gives below error on console.
TestNG Reports Processing: START
Looking for TestNG results report in workspace using pattern: **\target\surefire-reports\testng-results.xml
Did not find any matching files.
To ensure the file isn't too old, I had checked that the test-results.xml (and other files) belong to the latest test run. The Jenkins server is running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I'm running my tests in this manner: My project root directory has a run_tests.sh script which looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
echo "Please provide a valid suite XML file name."
else
mvn clean
mvn compile
mvn clean test -Dsurefire.suiteXmlFiles="$1"
fi
I just pass the suite XML file name as a parameter to this script in Jenkins (execute shell).
Please help.
I found the solution for this.
Go to Configure of your Job
in General Tab, you may find
Advanced Button, Click on this
Check the check box of "Use custom
workspace", under this you see the Directory text box, here you copy
your Selenium Workspace Folder, for example mine is
"E:\eclipse\eclipse-workspace\WebDriveTest\"
Scroll down the page
under the Post-build Actions, Publish TestNG Results, TestNG XML
report pattern : give like this
"**/target/surefire-reports/testng-results.xml" (check this path in
the same workspace).
I hope this will help you!.
You should be using / instead of \ (since you mentioned that your Jenkins is running on a UNIX box)
Krishnan, in the testng-users Google Group, pointed out that it could be an issue with my Jenkins project workspace, and it was the same.
I changed the default workspace in my Jenkins project.
So I've added the path "$HOME/myWorkspace/myProject/" in my Jenkins project workspace, and "**/target/surefire-reports/testng-results.xml" in my TestNG setting in the same Jenkins project, and it works!
Thank you Krishan for your help.
Please see my answer in another post here, it should be very clear.
In short, it is caused by the current directory was changed to the default Jenkins workspace, you need set your custom workspace in the Job's Config.
I agree with Krishnan Mahadevan usage of '\' instead of '/' while providing the path for TestNG Report also solved my problem.
Extremely important thing to note here:
When providing path for Root POM in the build section '\' is used
C:\Users\harsh\eclipse-workspace\ProjTwo3\pom.xml
When providing path for TestNG XML report pattern in Publish TestNG Result section
'/' is used
C:/Users/harsh/eclipse-workspace/ProjTwo3/target/surefire-reports/testng-results.xml
Console Output:
channel stopped
TestNG Reports Processing: START
Looking for TestNG results report in workspace using pattern:
C:/Users/harsh/eclipse-workspace/ProjTwo3/target/surefire-reports/testng-results.xml
Saving reports...
Processing 'C:\Users\harsh.jenkins\jobs\MyApplication\builds\12\testng\testng-results.xml'
11.688312% of tests failed, which exceeded threshold of 0%. Marking build as UNSTABLE

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