How to implement defects categorization in Allure 2 with Python py.test?

Question

In Allure 2 documentation it's stated that defects may be categorized. Artem Eroshenko in his Allure 2 presentation also mentioned that for this purpose categories.json config file should be created with regex for categories:

[
  {
    "name": "Outdated selectors",
    "messageRegex": ".*Unable to locate element.*",
    "matchedStatuses": ["broken"]
  },
  {
    "name": "Browser cluster problems",
    "messageRegex": ".*Timed out .* from renderer.*",
    "matchedStatuses": ["broken"]
  }
]

But there are no details in the docs about actual implementation of this feature. Where is this file should be located? Is this feature implemented in py.test allure 2 adaptor?

Answer 1

You need to place categories.json file to allure-results folder. For more details see other answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/46222758/3915166