Unable to get test history in Allure 3

[Phil-Turner87]

Hi, I've got Alure 3 working with Playwright and also got reports successfully publishing to allure-report-storage, but history isn't working for me. I've tried adding the config suggested in the docs like this in my allurerc.mjs:

historyPath: "./.allure/history.jsonl",
appendHistory: true

Is there anything else I need to do? The history.jsonl file is not being created when I run the tests. Also, I've noticed that the reports seem to be mixing up history with retries, as you can see when looking at the timestamps in the below screenshots (the tests in this example only took around 13 seconds to run and there were no actual retries).

Here is the command I'm using and the output. Everything seems to be working as expected except for the history.

% ENVIRONMENT=staging npx allure run -- npx playwright test --project='frontend desktop Chrome' -g 'smoke'
npx playwright test --project=frontend desktop Chrome -g smoke

Running 16 tests using 2 workers
  1 skipped
  15 passed (13.7s)
process finished with code 0 (14382ms)
[AllureReport]: Publishing "awesome" report: 0/169 files uploaded
[AllureReport]: Publishing "awesome" report: 169/169 files uploaded
Next reports have been published:
- http://localhost:3000/792f8060-29b2-4212-b55b-941deda0be91/awesome/index.html
exit code 0 (16100ms)

Versions:
allure: 3.15.0
allure-playwright: 3.10.2
allure-report-storage: 0.0.0

[clergyman]

Hello @Phil-Turner87, thank you for posting this and for exploring Allure ecosystem <3
In a nutshell, historyPath is an explicit history carryover mechanism for cases when you don't use our storage.

Please refer here, precisely, this part
The two options are also mutually exclusive: historyPath is ignored if allureService.accessToken is set

So, if you are using Allure Storage Service, you can either skip the history configuration completely, or use historyLimit. The service knows how to fetch history and does not work with the file.

Please let me know if it helps.

[Phil-Turner87]

Hi @clergyman , thanks for your help with this 🙂

I've been investigating and have managed to get reports with history working with a simple Playwright example and also another of my team's projects, so hopefully will be able to find out why it didn't work with the original project 🤞

[clergyman]

It's great to hear you've made it work, if you need any other assistance, please feel free to reach out 👍