Developers are unable to debug failing Jenkins jobs

[Alexandra Morozova]

As I UI developer I sometimes face the situation when UI tests verify-fuel-web-ui job fails on Jenkins, while the tests run normally on my machine. To fix tests in this case it would be great to have an ability to see how the tests are running on Jenkins in some way. (Using VNC? maybe)

[Igor Shishkin (teran)]

@Anastasia, frankly speaking the main CI purpose is to verify your changes before merging them.
To make this process stable as much is possible it's unacceptable to make developers able to interact with them.

So would it fit your request logging improvements for tests?
What kind of additional information you need in _logs_ to make investigation more effective?

[Alexandra Morozova (astepanchuk)]

@Igor, I would like to have an ability to see how the tests are running in the browser during fuel-web-ui job. Sure, I don't want to interrupt them, but just to observe

[Alexander Charykov (acharykov)]

@Alexandra it is not possible to see what happened via VNC, because tests run single X application(firefox, chrome, etc.), not whole GUI. I'm not even sure that X server is starting in UI tests.

[Igor Shishkin (teran)]

Marking as Invalid according to policy.

@Alexandra, at the same time I really want to make your workflow transparent and effective without affect to tests.
So if we could somehow help you to improve logging in your tests and/or make them available for you, please let me know.