File from previous step cannot be found in Azure DevOps-Pipeline - azure-devops

Question

In a pipeline I have two different steps. The first one generates some files, the second should take these files as an input.
the Yaml for that pipeline is the following:
name: myscript
stages:
- stage: Tes/t
displayName: owasp-test
jobs:
- job: owasp_test
displayName: run beasic checks for site
pool:
name: default
demands: Agent.OS -equals Windows_NT
steps:
- task: DotNetCoreCLI#2
inputs:
command: 'build'
projects: '**/*.sln'
- task: dependency-check-build-task#5
inputs:
projectName: 'DependencyCheck'
scanPath: '**/*.dll'
format: 'JUNIT'
- task: PublishTestResults#2
inputs:
testResultsFormat: 'JUnit'
testResultsFiles: '**/*-junit.xml'
the dependency-check-build-task returns an XML-File:
File upload succeed.
Upload 'P:\Azure-Pipelines-Agent\_work\2\TestResults\dependency-check\dependency-check-junit.xml' to file container: '#/11589616/dependency-check'
Associated artifact 53031 with build 21497
The following step (PublishTestResults) SHOULD take that file but returns
##[warning]No test result files matching **/*-junit.xml were found.
instead. I can see that file in the artifact after the pipeline is run.

Answer 1

This is because your report is written to Common.TestResultsDirectory which is c:\agent_work\1\TestResults (for Microsoft Hosted agents), and publish test task looks in System.DefaultWorkingDirectory which is c:\agent_work\1\s.
Please try:
- task: PublishTestResults#2
inputs:
testResultsFormat: 'JUnit'
testResultsFiles: '**/*-junit.xml'
searchFolder: '$(Common.TestResultsDirectory)'

Answer 2

I had the same trouble:
I fixed changing the Agent Specification