Allure JUnit 5 reference

These are the functions that you can use to integrate your JUnit 5 tests with Allure.

Allure JUnit 5 provides more than one way to use some features. In most cases, one way involves using an annotation on the test method, while the other involves a method call inside the test method body. The latter style is called “dynamic” and allows to construct values dynamically.

Metadata

Assign a test's description, links and other metadata.

Title

@DisplayName(String value)
Allure.getLifecycle().updateTestCase(Consumer<TestResult> update)

Set the test's title.

Unlike most of the functions described here, the @DisplayName annotation is a part of JUnit 5 itself.

If you need to construct a test's title dynamically, write a lambda function that does that and pass it to the updateTestCase() method of the AllureLifecycle object, see the example below.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @DisplayName("Test Authentication")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.getLifecycle().updateTestCase(result -> {
            result.setName("Test Authentication");
        });
        // ...
    }
}

Description

@Description(String value="", boolean useJavaDoc=false)
Allure.description(String description)

Set the test's description.

Use the @Description() annotation to set a description statically or use the description() method to set it dynamically in runtime.

Alternatively, you can let Allure JUnit 5 parse the description from the test method's JavaDoc comment. To do so, first add a special annotation processor to your project's Maven or Gradle configuration. Then, use the Annotations API with the useJavaDoc=true argument on the test methods for which you want to parse the description from JavaDoc. Note that on a large project, processing the annotations may significantly increase both the compilation time and the file size of the test executable files.

Markdown formatting is allowed. Any HTML formatting, if present, will be stripped for security purposes.

Annotations APIRuntime APIJavaDocjava

java

import io.qameta.allure.Description;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @Description("This test attempts to log into the website using a login and a password. Fails if any error happens.\n\nNote that this test does not test 2-Factor Authentication.")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.description("This test attempts to log into the website using a login and a password. Fails if any error happens.\n\nNote that this test does not test 2-Factor Authentication.");
        // ...
    }
}

kotlin

// In the project's `build.gradle.kts`

val allureVersion = "2.24.0"

dependencies {
    // ...
    testAnnotationProcessor("io.qameta.allure:allure-descriptions-javadoc:$allureVersion")
}

In a test file:

java

import io.qameta.allure.Description;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    /**
     * This test attempts to log into the website using a login and a password. Fails if any error happens.
     * <p>
     * Note that this test does not test 2-Factor Authentication.
     */
    @Test
    @Description(useJavaDoc = true)
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

Owner

@Owner(String value="")

Set the test's owner.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import io.qameta.allure.Owner;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @Owner("John Doe")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.label("owner", "John Doe");
        // ...
    }
}

Tag

@Tag(String value)
@Tags(Tag[] value)

Set the test's tags.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @Tag("NewUI")
    @Tag("Essentials")
    @Tag("Authentication")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.label("tag", "NewUI");
        Allure.label("tag", "Essentials");
        Allure.label("tag", "Authentication");
        // ...
    }
}

Severity

@Severity(SeverityLevel value)

Set the test's severity.

Allowed values are: “trivial”, “minor”, “normal”, “critical”, and “blocker”.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import io.qameta.allure.Severity;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static io.qameta.allure.SeverityLevel.*;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @Severity(CRITICAL)
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.label("severity", "critical");
        // ...
    }
}

Label

@LabelAnnotation(String name, String value=DEFAULT_VALUE)
Allure.label(String name, String value)

Set an arbitrary label for the test. This is the underlying implementation for a lot of Allure's other functions.

To set a label dynamically, just call the label() function with a name and a value for a label. You can do it multiple times to create an array of values under that name.

Another way of setting a label is to create a custom class using @LabelAnnotation and annotate the tests with the new annotation, see the example below. Please be careful to copy @Retention, @Target and the other necessary annotations as this is shown in the example, otherwise you custom annotation may not work properly.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import io.qameta.allure.LabelAnnotation;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

@Documented
@Inherited
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@LabelAnnotation(name = "CustomLabelName")
@interface MyLabel {
    String value();
}

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @MyLabel("custom label value")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.label("language", "java");
        Allure.label("framework", "junit5");
        Allure.label("CustomLabelName", "custom label value");
        // ...
    }
}

Allure ID (Allure TestOps)

@AllureId(String value)

Set the test's ID.

java

import io.qameta.allure.AllureId;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @AllureId("123")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

Link

@Link(String value="", name="", String url="", String type=CUSTOM_LINK_TYPE)
@Links(Link[] value)
@Issue(String value="")
@Issues(Issue[] value)
@TmsLink(String value="")
@TmsLinks(TmsLink[] value)
Allure.link(String url)
Allure.link(String name, String url)
Allure.link(String name, String type, String url)
Allure.issue(String name, String url)
Allure.tms(String name, String url)

Add a link related to the test.

Based on the type (which can be any string), Allure will try to load a corresponding link pattern to process the URL, as defined by the allure.link.*.pattern configuration option. If no pattern found for the given type, the URL is left unmodified.

The name will be used as the link's text. If it is omitted, the unprocessed URL will be used instead.

For convenience, Allure provides two shorthand functions with pre-selected link types: issue() and tms().

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import io.qameta.allure.Issue;
import io.qameta.allure.Link;
import io.qameta.allure.TmsLink;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @Link(name = "Website", url = "https://dev.example.com/")
    @Issue("AUTH-123")
    @TmsLink("TMS-456")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.link("Website", "https://dev.example.com/");
        Allure.issue("AUTH-123", "https://jira.example.org/browse/AUTH-123");
        Allure.tms("TMS-456", "https://tms.example.org/TMS-456");
        // ...
    }
}

Behavior-based hierarchy

@Epic(String value="")
@Epics(Epic[] value)
@Feature(String value="")
@Features(Feature[] value)
@Story(String value="")
@Stories(Story[] value)
Allure.epic(String value)
Allure.feature(String value)
Allure.story(String value)

Assign names of epics, features or user stories for a test, as part of Allure's behavior-based hierarchy.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import io.qameta.allure.Epic;
import io.qameta.allure.Feature;
import io.qameta.allure.Story;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    @Epic("Web interface")
    @Feature("Essential features")
    @Story("Authentication")
    void testAuthentication() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.epic("Web interface");
        Allure.feature("Essential features");
        Allure.story("Authentication");
        // ...
    }
}

Suite-based hierarchy

Allure.suite(String value)

Assign the name of suite, as part of Allure's suite-based hierarchy.

To assign names of parent suite or sub-suite, use label() with the corresponding label names.

Runtime API

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        Allure.label("parentSuite" "Tests for web interface");
        Allure.suite("Tests for essential features");
        Allure.label("subSuite", "Tests for authentication");
        // ...
    }
}

Test steps

@Step(String value="")
Allure.step(String name)
Allure.step(String name, Status status)
Allure.step(String name, ThrowableRunnableVoid runnable)
Allure.step(String name, ThrowableRunnable<T> runnable)
Allure.step(ThrowableContextRunnableVoid<StepContext> runnable)
Allure.step(String name, ThrowableContextRunnableVoid<StepContext> runnable)
Allure.step(String name, ThrowableContextRunnable<T, StepContext> runnable)
Allure.step(ThrowableContextRunnable<T, StepContext> runnable)

Define a test step with the given name.

There are three ways of defining a step.

“An annotated step”: define a method containing a test step and decorate it with @Step().
“A lambda step”: write a test step in a lambda function and pass it to Allure.step().
“A no-op step”: just pass a name and an optional status to Allure.step() to immediately add a corresponding entry to the results as a sub-step of the current step.

When you are implementing a function for a lambda step, it can accept either no arguments or a single argument of class StepContext. This object provides the following methods:

name() — override the step name during its execution.
parameter() — indicate arbitrary parameters used for the step. The available signatures of this method are the same as for the test-wide implementation, see Parametrized tests.

Annotated stepsLambda steps and no-op steps

java

import io.qameta.allure.Step;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {
        step1();
        step2();
    }

    @Step("Step 1")
    void step1() {
        subStep1();
        subStep2();
    }

    @Step("Sub-step 1")
    void subStep1() {
        // ...
    }

    @Step("Sub-step 2")
    void subStep2() {
        // ...
    }

    @Step("Step 2")
    void step2() {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() {

        Allure.step("Step 1", step -> {

            // ...
            Allure.step("Sub-step 1");

            // ...
            Allure.step("Sub-step 2");
        });

        Allure.step("Step 2", step -> {
            // ...
        });
    }
}

Parametrized tests

@Param(String value="", String name="", Parameter.Mode mode=DEFAULT, boolean excluded=false)
Allure.parameter(String name, T value)
Allure.parameter(String name, T value, Boolean excluded)
Allure.parameter(String name, T value, Parameter.Mode mode)
Allure.parameter(String name, T value, Boolean excluded, Parameter.Mode mode)

Specify a name and value of a parameter that was used during this test. This can be used for adding the parameters even to those function that do not use the @ParameterizedTest() decorator. See Parametrized tests for more details.

WARNING

Allure JUnit 5 identifies tests based only on their names and static parameters, such as the ones defined via @ValueSource. If you have multiple tests that only differ in dynamic parameters (i.e., the Allure.parameter() calls), they will be treated as one test for the purposes of History and retries.

If the excluded argument is set to true, Allure will not use the parameter when comparing the current test result with previous one in the history. This argument is only used by Allure TestOps.

The mode argument affects how the parameter will be displayed in the report. Available options are defined in the Parameter.Mode enumeration:

Parameter.Mode.DEFAULT (same as not specifying any mode) — the parameter and its value will be shown in a table along with other parameters.
Parameter.Mode.MASKED — the parameter will be shown in the table, but its value will be hidden. Use this mode for passwords, tokens and other sensitive parameters.
Parameter.Mode.HIDDEN — the parameter and its value will not be shown in the test report. Note, however, that it is still possible to extract the value from the allure_results directory if you publish it.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @ParameterizedTest(name = "{displayName} ({argumentsWithNames})")
    @ValueSource(strings = {"johndoe", "[email protected]"})
    void testAuthentication(String login) {
        // ...
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthenticationWithUsername() {
        Allure.parameter("login", "johndoe");
        // ...
    }

    @Test
    void testAuthenticationWithEmail() {
        Allure.parameter("login", "[email protected]");
        // ...
    }
}

Note that by default, the Java runtime does not have access to the names of method arguments. This means that the Annotations API can only display pseudo-names like “arg0”, “arg1”, etc. To let it display the original names in the report, add -parameters into your project's compilerArgs. For example (in the project's build.gradle.kts):

kotlin

tasks.withType(JavaCompile::class) {
    options.compilerArgs.add("-parameters")
}

Attachments

@Attachment(String value="", String type="", String fileExtension="")
Allure.addAttachment(String name, String content)
Allure.addAttachment(String name, String type, String content)
Allure.addAttachment(String name, String type, String content, String fileExtension)
Allure.addAttachment(String name, InputStream content)
Allure.addAttachment(String name, String type, InputStream content, String fileExtension)
Allure.attachment(String name, String content)
Allure.attachment(String name, InputStream content)

Add content as an attachment to the test result under the given name (defaults to a unique pseudo-random string).

TIP

You can use data produced by any function, not necessarily read from an actual file.

To create an attachment using the Annotations API, define a method that returns some data and annotate it with @Attachment. Call the method at any point during your test.

To create an attachment using the Runtime API, just call addAttachment() or attachment() at any point during your test. Pass the data as the content argument.

The data will be processed as following:

If the data type is byte[], Allure will use it without modification.
If the data type is String, Allure will convert it to byte[].
If the data is of any other type, Allure will call the toString() method and then convert the string to byte[].

To ensure that the reader's web browser will display attachments correctly, it is recommended to specify each attachment's type. To do so, pass the media type of the content as type and, optionally, a filename extension as fileExtension. The media type affects how the data will be displayed in the test report, while the filename extension is appended to the filename when user wants to save the file.

Annotations APIRuntime API

java

import io.qameta.allure.Attachment;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() throws IOException {
        // ...
        attachDataTXT();
        attachScreenshotPNG();
    }

    @Attachment(value = "data", type = "text/plain", fileExtension = ".txt")
    public String attachDataTXT() {
        return "This is the file content.";
    }

    @Attachment(value = "screenshot", type = "image/png", fileExtension = ".png")
    public byte[] attachScreenshotPNG() throws IOException {
        return Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("/path/to/image.png"));
    }
}

java

import io.qameta.allure.Allure;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

class TestMyWebsite {

    @Test
    void testAuthentication() throws IOException {
        // ...
        Allure.attachment("data.txt", "This is the file content.");
        try (InputStream is = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("/path/img.png"))) {
            Allure.attachment("image.png", is);
        }
    }
}

INFO

Additionally, Allure provides a way to spawn threads that will add attachments to the test results asynchronously without blocking the test runner. While not recommended for the majority of cases, this approach can improve tests that otherwise have to wait for processing very large files, such as videos larger than 1 GB. Please refer to the source code for Allure.addByteAttachmentAsync() and Allure.addStreamAttachmentAsync() to learn more.

Results history

Flaky

@Flaky

Indicate that the test is known to be unstable and can may not succeed every time. See Flaky tests.

Allure JUnit 5 reference

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Suite-based hierarchy

Test steps

Parametrized tests

Attachments

Results history

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