I installed the cucumber-testresult-plugin on jenkins.
I already have the cucumber report plugin as well (the nice colorful report) but because of existing bug on scenario outline I wanted to use a deferent report that gave me correct number of steps.

But when the build was executed I got the following error and the jenkins build failed
[Cucumber Tests] Parsing results.
[Cucumber Tests] parsing cucumber.json
ERROR: Failed to archive cucumber reports

at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:848)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:825)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.DefaultTestResultParserImpl.parse(DefaultTestResultParserImpl.java:101)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.CucumberJSONParser.parse(CucumberJSONParser.java:116)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.CucumberTestResultArchiver.perform(CucumberTestResultArchiver.java:93)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:810)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:785)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:183)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:732)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1568)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:236)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Failed to parse Cucumber JSON
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.CucumberJSONParser.parse(CucumberJSONParser.java:99)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.CucumberJSONParser.parse(CucumberJSONParser.java:44)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.DefaultTestResultParserImpl$ParseResultCallable.invoke(DefaultTestResultParserImpl.java:161)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.DefaultTestResultParserImpl$ParseResultCallable.invoke(DefaultTestResultParserImpl.java:107)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2309)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at hudson.remoting.Engine$1$1.run(Engine.java:58)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
Caused by: org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.CucumberModelException: Step received before previous step handled!
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.GherkinCallback.step(GherkinCallback.java:160)
at gherkin.formatter.model.Step.replay(Step.java:68)
at gherkin.JSONParser.step(JSONParser.java:106)
at gherkin.JSONParser.parse(JSONParser.java:51)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cucumber.jsontestsupport.CucumberJSONParser.parse(CucumberJSONParser.java:94)
... 14 more

Note: I'm using the same location for the cucumber.json as the cucumber report plugin.