diff --git a/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
index 72976b17..87e3c4c7 100644
--- a/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
+++ b/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
@@ -12,4 +12,6 @@
     <suppress checks=".+"
               files="InjectedTest.java"/>
     <suppress checks="MagicNumber" files="BuildLogIndication.java"/>
+    <suppress checks="MagicNumberCheck"
+              files="BuildFailureScannerHudsonTest.java"/>
 </suppressions>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScanner.java b/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScanner.java
index 512cdffd..e8166993 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScanner.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScanner.java
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 import hudson.tasks.test.AbstractTestResultAction;
 import hudson.tasks.test.TestResult;
 import jenkins.model.Jenkins;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 
 import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
@@ -252,6 +253,10 @@ public static void scan(Run build, PrintStream scanLog) {
                 notifySlackAllFail = true;
             }
 
+            if (PluginImpl.getInstance().isBuildDescriptionEnabled() && !foundCauseList.isEmpty()) {
+              build.setDescription(generateDescriptionString(build, foundCauseList));
+            }
+
             StatisticsLogger.getInstance().log(build, foundCauseListToLog);
 
             // Check slack plugin is installed
@@ -649,4 +654,47 @@ private static List<FoundFailureCause> findFailedTests(final Run build, final Pr
 
         return failedTestList;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Generate text that can be used for the build description using categories and failure causes.
+     *
+     * @param build to get current build description
+     * @param foundCauseList list of failure causes
+     * @return A String of the BFA categories and causes appended to the build's description.
+     */
+    public static String generateDescriptionString(Run build, List<FoundFailureCause> foundCauseList) {
+        StringBuffer buildDescription = new StringBuffer();
+        buildDescription.append("<mark>");
+
+        if (foundCauseList.get(0) != null) {
+
+            for (int j = 0; j < foundCauseList.get(0).getCategories().size(); j++) {
+                buildDescription.append("<b>");
+                buildDescription.append(foundCauseList.get(0).getCategories().get(j));
+                buildDescription.append("</b> ");
+            }
+            if (foundCauseList.get(0).getCategories().size() > 0) {
+                buildDescription.append(": ");
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Append all failure causes.
+        if (foundCauseList.get(0) != null)  {
+            for (int i = 0; i < foundCauseList.size(); i++) {
+                buildDescription.append("<i>");
+                buildDescription.append(foundCauseList.get(i).getDescription());
+                buildDescription.append("</i>");
+                if (i < (foundCauseList.size() - 1)) {
+                    buildDescription.append("  ");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        buildDescription.append("</mark>");
+
+        // Append this build description to any pre-existing build description
+        if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(build.getDescription())) {
+            buildDescription.insert(0, (build.getDescription().concat("<br>\n")));
+        }
+        return buildDescription.toString();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl.java b/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl.java
index 19aff29e..4832a244 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl.java
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ public class PluginImpl extends GlobalConfiguration {
 
     private int nrOfScanThreads;
     private int maxLogSize;
+    private boolean buildDescriptionEnabled;
 
     private Boolean graphsEnabled;
 
@@ -680,6 +681,25 @@ public int getMaxLogSize() {
     }
 
 
+    /**
+     * Set option to append failure causes to job's build description.
+     *
+     * @param buildDescriptionEnabled should build description option be turned on
+     */
+    @DataBoundSetter
+    public void setBuildDescriptionEnabled(boolean buildDescriptionEnabled) {
+      this.buildDescriptionEnabled = buildDescriptionEnabled;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * If buildDescriptionEnabled is enabled or not. Build Descriptions will be set to a concatenated
+     * list of the failure descriptions as a convenience.
+     * @return True if enabled.
+     */
+    public boolean isBuildDescriptionEnabled() {
+        return buildDescriptionEnabled;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Checks if the build with certain result should be analyzed or not.
      *
diff --git a/src/main/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl/config.jelly b/src/main/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl/config.jelly
index b4a9dca0..2a9b6129 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl/config.jelly
+++ b/src/main/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/PluginImpl/config.jelly
@@ -96,5 +96,10 @@
         <f:entry title="${%Max size of log file}" description="${%maxLogSize}">
             <f:textbox field="maxLogSize" />
         </f:entry>
+        <f:entry title="${%Set job description to failure description}"
+             description="${%Enabling this option will set the build's description to the failure descriptions as a convenience.}">
+            <f:checkbox name="buildDescriptionEnabled" checked="${it.buildDescriptionEnabled}"
+                  default="false"/>
+        </f:entry>
     </f:advanced>
 </j:jelly>
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScannerHudsonTest.java b/src/test/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScannerHudsonTest.java
index 92b8975f..eb5ac21c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScannerHudsonTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/BuildFailureScannerHudsonTest.java
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ public class BuildFailureScannerHudsonTest {
 
     private static final String BUILD_LOG = "ERROR: brief\n  detail\n";
     private static final String BUILD_LOG_FIRST_LINE = "ERROR: brief";
+    private static final String BUILD_DESCRIPTION = "This is a build description.";
     private static final String DESCRIPTION = "The error was: ${1,1}${2,1}";
     private static final String REGEX = "ERROR: (.*?)$";
     private static final String MULTILINE_REGEX = "ERROR: (.*?)$.*?  detail";
@@ -1031,6 +1032,86 @@ public boolean perform(AbstractBuild<?, ?> build, Launcher launcher,
         assertEquals("Amount of failure causes does not match.", 0, causeListFromAction.size());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Test buildDescriptionEnabled = false does not append failure cause to build description.
+     *
+     * @throws Exception if a build description is appended when the setting is set to false.
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testTestBuildDescriptionEnabledIfDisabled() throws Exception {
+        PluginImpl.getInstance().setTestResultParsingEnabled(true);
+        PluginImpl.getInstance().setBuildDescriptionEnabled(false);
+        FreeStyleProject project = jenkins.createFreeStyleProject();
+
+        project.getBuildersList().add(new PrintToLogBuilder(BUILD_LOG));
+        project.getBuildersList().add(new TestBuilder() {
+            public boolean perform(AbstractBuild<?, ?> build, Launcher launcher,
+                                   BuildListener listener) throws InterruptedException, IOException {
+                build.getWorkspace().child("junit.xml").copyFrom(
+                        this.getClass().getResource("junit.xml"));
+                return true;
+            }
+        });
+
+        project.getPublishersList().add(new JUnitResultArchiver("junit.xml", false, null));
+
+        QueueTaskFuture<FreeStyleBuild> future = project.scheduleBuild2(0, new Cause.UserIdCause());
+        FreeStyleBuild build = future.get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        jenkins.assertBuildStatus(Result.UNSTABLE, build);
+
+        FailureCauseBuildAction action = build.getAction(FailureCauseBuildAction.class);
+        assertNotNull(action);
+
+        List<FoundFailureCause> causeListFromAction = action.getFoundFailureCauses();
+        assertEquals("Amount of failure causes does not match.", 2, causeListFromAction.size());
+
+        // Start with some build description not assigned by BFA and run another scan.
+        action.getFoundFailureCauses();
+        assertEquals(build.getDescription(), null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test buildDescriptionEnabled = true does append failure cause to existing build description.
+     * with categories set
+     *
+     * @throws Exception if description is not appended correctly.
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testTestBuildDescriptionEnabledWithCategoriesIfEnabled() throws Exception {
+        PluginImpl.getInstance().setTestResultParsingEnabled(true);
+        PluginImpl.getInstance().setBuildDescriptionEnabled(true);
+        String categories = "foo bar";
+        PluginImpl.getInstance().setTestResultCategories(categories);
+        FreeStyleProject project = jenkins.createFreeStyleProject();
+
+        // Test with a preset build description
+        project.getBuildersList().add(new PrintToLogBuilder(BUILD_LOG));
+        project.getBuildersList().add(new TestBuilder() {
+            public boolean perform(AbstractBuild<?, ?> build, Launcher launcher,
+                                   BuildListener listener) throws InterruptedException, IOException {
+                build.getWorkspace().child("junit.xml").copyFrom(this.getClass().getResource("junit.xml"));
+                build.setDescription("Hello World");
+                return true;
+            }
+        });
+
+        project.getPublishersList().add(new JUnitResultArchiver("junit.xml", false, null));
+
+        QueueTaskFuture<FreeStyleBuild> future = project.scheduleBuild2(0, new Cause.UserIdCause());
+        FreeStyleBuild build = future.get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        jenkins.assertBuildStatus(Result.UNSTABLE, build);
+
+        FailureCauseBuildAction action = build.getAction(FailureCauseBuildAction.class);
+        assertNotNull(action);
+
+        List<FoundFailureCause> causeListFromAction = action.getFoundFailureCauses();
+        assertEquals("Amount of failure causes does not match.", 2, causeListFromAction.size());
+
+        String testDescription = "Hello World<br>\n"
+                + "<mark><b>foo</b> <b>bar</b> : <i>Here are details of the failure...</i>  <i>More details</i></mark>";
+        assertEquals(build.getDescription(), testDescription);
+    }
+
     /**
      * ArgumentMatcher for a Statistics object.
      */
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-local-expected.yml b/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-local-expected.yml
index 5990751a..33db670d 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-local-expected.yml
+++ b/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-local-expected.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+buildDescriptionEnabled: false
 doNotAnalyzeAbortedJob: true
 gerritTriggerEnabled: true
 globalEnabled: true
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-mongo-expected.yml b/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-mongo-expected.yml
index 4f30360b..bce219db 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-mongo-expected.yml
+++ b/src/test/resources/com/sonyericsson/jenkins/plugins/bfa/jcasc/jcasc-mongo-expected.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+buildDescriptionEnabled: false
 doNotAnalyzeAbortedJob: true
 gerritTriggerEnabled: true
 globalEnabled: true