Add an option in the gradle.properties for html junit reports (#2777)

gradle/template.gradle.properties

@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@
 # tests.minheapsize=512m
 # tests.jvmargs=-XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1 -XX:ActiveProcessorCount=1
 #
+# If you want tests to produce an html report (which intellij provides a clickable link for
+# at the end of a failed build) set this to true, defaults to false to save a few seconds.
+#
+# tests.html=false
+#
 #################
 # Gradle Daemon #
 #################
@@ -98,5 +103,8 @@ org.gradle.workers.max=@MAX_WORKERS@
 # Maximum number of test JVMs forked per test task.
 tests.jvms=@TEST_JVMS@
 
+# By default skip html generation
+tests.html=false
+
 # Disable auto JVM provisioning (we don't use toolchains yet but want no surprises).
 org.gradle.java.installations.auto-download=false

gradle/testing/defaults-tests.gradle

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ allprojects {
       }
 
       // Disable HTML report generation. The reports are big and slow to generate.
-      reports.html.required = false
+      reports.html.required = Boolean.parseBoolean(providers.gradleProperty("tests.html").getOrElse("false"))
 
       // Set up logging.
       testLogging {