[I currently have Hudson ver. 1.320]

I run Ruby Selenium tests via RSpec (run in a rake task), my tests generate XML
output (using ci_reporter, http://github.com/nicksieger/ci_reporter), which I
use Hudson's "Publish JUnit test result report" feature to process.

I was having sporadic problems with XML processing (sometimes it worked fine,
sometimes it didn't) until I figured out that the problem occurred when I
included a period in the describe statement of an RSpec example.

If a build completed with test failures, the path to the test result output (the
link with the test name, in the "test result" page) was incorrectly set so the
link would be pointing to an invalid address and I would get a 404 error. I have
created an example below to easily repro the problem.

describe 'A period at the end of this sentence breaks xml processing.' do
it 'a dummy spec method.' do
(2 + 2).should == 5
end
end

If this test is run in Hudson and the xml output generated (via ci_reporter) is
processed by Hudson, you should see the problem when attempting to view the test
results.

[Note: a period in the "it .. do" statement does not seem to cause any problem.]

I didn't log this as a defect as I doubt hudson was designed to handle this
case. However, it would be great if this case could be handled, as it was
difficult to determine the cause of my problems, and the XML processing for
RSpec/ci_reporter output works great otherwise.