See complete mail thread at http://n4.nabble.com/Getting-junitResult-xml-through-HTTP-td1583391.html.

[Abstract]
It'd be cool if a Hudson IDE client could load failed tests into the IDE's JUnit window/plugin/etc. For that to happen the client would need access to the JUnit XML files generated by surefire.

[Which files?]
My idea is to simply make the JUnit XML files in the workspace available. Two aggregate actions could provide

• a set of files for all failed tests OR
• a set of all JUnit XML files
  Alternatively, a client should be able to retrieve a single file through HTTP if he only needs a specific file. That use case is IMO of lower relevance, though.

[Kohsuke's input]
...from mailing list...sorry, didn't quite get it...
"I think it'd be nice to add an XML API for those test reports that fake
the canonical JUnit XML format. That would allow all the existing test
frameworks to expose its results to other programs.

Either that or we should change the JUnit report plugin to keep the
original report XML files, but the problem is that they can be separated
into many files and it's not easy for others to programmatically access
them in a reliable way."