diff --git a/server/api/app/resolver.ts b/server/api/app/resolver.ts
index 83df6ab..ee847d2 100644
--- a/server/api/app/resolver.ts
+++ b/server/api/app/resolver.ts
@@ -44,4 +44,22 @@ export default class AppResolver {
 
     return "";
   }
+
+  @Mutation(returns => String)
+  openFailure(@Arg("failure") failure: string) {
+    // The following regex matches the first line of the form: \w at <some text> (<file path>)
+    // it captures <file path> and returns that in the second position of the match array
+    let re = new RegExp('^\\s+at.*?\\((.*?)\\)$', 'm');
+    let match = failure.match(re);
+    if (match && match.length === 2) {
+      const path = match[1];
+      launch(path, process.env.EDITOR || "code", (path: string, err: any) => {
+        console.log("Failed to open file in editor. You may need to install the code command to your PATH if you are using VSCode: ", err);
+      });
+    }
+    else {
+      console.log("Failed to find a path to a file to load in the failure string.");
+    }
+    return "";
+  }
 }
diff --git a/ui/test-file/open-failure.gql b/ui/test-file/open-failure.gql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2eb6b5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/test-file/open-failure.gql
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+mutation OpenFailure($failure: String!) {
+  openFailure(failure: $failure)
+}
diff --git a/ui/test-file/test-item.tsx b/ui/test-file/test-item.tsx
index 1e29694..f2a6446 100644
--- a/ui/test-file/test-item.tsx
+++ b/ui/test-file/test-item.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import { TestFileResult } from "../../server/api/workspace/test-result/file-resu
 import TestIndicator from "./test-indicator";
 import { color, space } from "styled-system";
 import * as Convert from "ansi-to-html";
+import OPEN_FAILURE from "./open-failure.gql";
+import { useMutation } from "react-apollo-hooks";
 
 const convert = new Convert({
   colors: {
@@ -93,9 +95,18 @@ export default function Test({
     return true;
   });
 
+          if (children && children.length > 0) {
+    }
+
+  const openFailure = useMutation(OPEN_FAILURE, {
+    variables: {
+      failure: testResult && testResult.failureMessages ? testResult.failureMessages[0] : ''
+    }
+  });
+
   return (
     <Container>
-      <Content only={only}>
+      <Content only={only} onClick={ () => openFailure()}>
         <Label>
           <TestIndicator
             status={