In common CI/CD use-cases a lot of the space is consumed by test reports. This data is stored within JENKINS_HOME, and the current storage format requires huge overheads when retrieving statistics and, especially, trends. In order to display trends, each report has to be loaded and then processed in-memory. The main purpose of externalising Test Results is to optimize Jenkins performance and storage by querying the desired data from...
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