Artifacts

To inspect a failing test additional files (usually screenshots, videos or traces) can be attached to a test. These files are called test artifacts.

Testomat.io Reporter uses a custom S3 bucket for artifacts which can be obtained from any S3 provider, like AWS, DigitalOcean and others. This makes artifacts storage to be independent from Testomat.io Application. In case you decide to stop using it, you still control your data. It is also up to you to clean old artifacts when you don’t need them.

By using external storage Testomat.io allows getting full control over how the storage is used. You can either clean up old test artifacts or contrary extend storage to store all history for all periods. S3 was chosen as a de-facto standard for file storage so all cloud providers support it. If you don’t have S3 storage yet, you can purchase one from your favorite cloud provider and create a new bucket (storage space) on it. Testomat.io has no direct access to artifacts storage.

Set Up S3 Bucket

To have test artifacts uploaded you need to create S3 Object Storage bucket on AWS, DigitalOcean, Azure, or Google Cloud Storage in interoperability mode.

Overview

Test artifacts can be uploaded with public (default) or private access to a bucket

Test Artifacts

Reporter sends a file to S3 storage and sends link back
Testomat.io displays artifacts by the link in public mode or pre-signed links in private mode

Testomat.io Application won’t bill you for stored artifacts, as they are stored in your bucket. If you don’t have S3 bucket yet, it’s not more than 5$ a month to purchase them one of the cloud providers. S3 was chosen as it is de-facto standard for file storage for cloud hosting. All popular hosting except Microsoft Azure support S3 protocol for storing files.

If a test fails, a test runner may produce screenshot, video, or trace of a failed test. These files will be picked up by a reporter and uploaded to S3 bucket and attached to test.

Privacy

Public Access

By default tests artifacts are uploaded to bucket with public-read permission.

In this case uploaded files will be publicly accessible in Internet for any user via a permalink. These public links will be used by Testomat.io Application as well as GitHub and GitLab Pipes to display images.

A bucket can be configured to disable the public listing of files, an arbitrary user can’t access a file without knowing that permalink.

Stored files will be served publicly via an appropriately configured ACL (Access Control List) or ACP (Access Control Policy).

Private Access

If you need a more secure approach use private access mode. In this case, you will need to configure access credentials for Testomat.io, so it could access files inside a bucket.

First, add TESTOMATIO_PRIVATE_ARTIFACTS=1 environment value. Then provide the same S3 credentials in “Settings > Artifacts” section of a project, so Testomat.io Application could connect to the same bucket and fetch uploaded artifacts.

Links to files will be pre-signed and expire automatically in 10 minutes.

Testomatio - Private Access

Test Artifacts settings are available only to managers and owners of a project!

Configuration

There are two options for setting S3 bucket credentials:

via environment variables
by connecting to Testomat.io Application

Recommended way is to set S3 bucket credentials as environment variables:

S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID - Access key.
S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - Secret.
S3_REGION - Region your bucket lies.
S3_BUCKET - Bucket name.
S3_ENDPOINT - for providers other than AWS

If you use Testomat.io Application, you can set those variables inside Settings > Artifacts page: enable “Share credentials” toggle to pass credentials into reporter and fill in S3 credentials into the displayed form.

Testomatio - Configuration

In this case Testomat.io Reporter will obtain S3 credentials for server and use them to save artifacts.

Alternatively, you can configure reporter by using environment variables. If S3_BUCKET environment variable is defined reporter will start uploading test artifacts.

We recommend storing S3 configuration in .env files when running tests locally and using job configuration when running on the Continuous Integration server. Please keep S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY in secret.

TESTOMATIO_PRIVATE_ARTIFACTS=1


S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
S3_REGION=
S3_BUCKET=
S3_ENDPOINT=

S3_ENDPOINT is required only if you use S3 provider other than AWS

To disable publishing of artifacts use TESTOMATIO_DISABLE_ARTIFACTS=1 environment variable.

Examples of upload configuration defined in environment variables are displayed below.

Providers

AWS

Upload to AWS with private access mode:

TESTOMATIO_PRIVATE_ARTIFACTS=1
S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=11111111111111111111
S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222
S3_BUCKET=artifacts
S3_REGION=us-west-1

To allow Testomat.io access stored files it is recommended to apply this policy to the bucket:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": ["s3:PutObject", "s3:GetObjectAcl", "s3:GetObject", "s3:GetObjectVersionAcl"],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<bucket_name>/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": ["s3:ListBucket", "s3:PutBucketCORS", "s3:GetBucketAcl"],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<bucket_name>"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor2",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

If you use Playwright and you want to enable trace viewing ensure that CORS policy is enabled for the bucket:

aws s3api put-bucket-cors \
    --bucket YOUR_BUCKET_NAME \
    --cors-configuration '{
    "CORSRules": [
        {
            "AllowedHeaders": ["*"],
            "AllowedMethods": ["GET"],
            "AllowedOrigins": ["https://app.testomat.io"],
            "ExposeHeaders": ["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"],
            "MaxAgeSeconds": 3000
        },
        {
            "AllowedHeaders": ["*"],
            "AllowedMethods": ["GET"],
            "AllowedOrigins": ["https://trace.playwright.dev"],
            "ExposeHeaders": ["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"],
            "MaxAgeSeconds": 3000
        }
    ]
}'

DigitalOcean

Upload to DigitalOcean in private access mode:

TESTOMATIO_PRIVATE_ARTIFACTS=1
S3_ENDPOINT=https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com
S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=11111111111111111111
S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222
S3_BUCKET=artifacts
S3_REGION=ams3

Minio

Upload to Minio in public access mode:

S3_ENDPOINT=http://company.storage.com
S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=minio
S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=minio123
S3_BUCKET=testomatio
S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=true

It is important to add S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE var for minio setup

Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage can work via S3 protocol if Interoperability mode is enabled.

Testomatio - Google Cloud Storage

Open Cloud Storage. Create a bucket for artifacts, then inside Settings select “Interoperability”. Create ACCESS_KEY and SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for the current user.

S3_ENDPOINT=https://storage.googleapis.com
S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=11111111
S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=2222222
S3_BUCKET=testomatio
S3_REGION=us-east1

Please note, that you need to enable Use Private URLs for Test Artifacts in Testomat.io Project Settings if you configure bucket credentials on Testomat.io side.

Cloudflare R2

Creating a Bucket in Cloudflare R2

Cloudflare Dashboard: https://dash.cloudflare.com/
Steps:
- Navigate to the R2 section and select the option to create a new bucket.
- Choose a unique name and a region for the bucket.

Testomatio - Create a new bucket

Testomatio - Set bucket name

Creating API Keys for the Bucket

Purpose: To ensure secure access to the bucket.
Steps:
- Go to the access management or API section.
- Generate a new API key with read/write permissions.
- Save and verify the generated key.

Testomatio - Generate API keys for bucket

Testomatio - Select Api variant

Testomatio - Create Api key

Testomatio - Set permissions for Api key

Testomatio - Copy Api key

Connecting the Bucket to Testomat.io

Overview: Integration with R2 streamlines testing and data management.
Configuration:
- Go to Settings->Artifacts inside the project on Testomat.io.
- Enter the API keys and bucket address.
- Configure the paths and access parameters as required.

Testomatio - Set bucket credentials

Adding Artifacts

JavaScript Frameworks

If you successfully configured @testomatio/reporter to work with the current test runner you can set up S3 credentials via environment variables.

We recommend using dotenv library in development mode to store all config variables in a file. Create .env files in the same folder where a test configuration is stored and add require(‘dotenv’).config(); to the top of the file:

// config file
require('dotenv').config();

// ...

Testomat.io Reporter has built-in support and automatically uploads saved artifacts for the following test frameworks:

Playwright
CodeceptJS
Сypress
WebdriverIO

If a screenshot, a video, or a trace was saved and attached to test, Testomat.io Reporter will automatically upload any of these as artifacts.

Usually, artifacts are stored automatically for failed test cases. To send arbitrary files as artifacts use artifact method from Testomat.io functions @testomatio/reporter package.

If you use other test runners or you want to add more files to test report you can add this via @testomatio/reporter API. To attach a file inside a test, add a filename of an existing file to global.testomatioArtifacts array:

// inside a test:

// attach a local file to a report
global.testomatioArtifacts.push(fileName);

// attach a picture inside a test

global.testomatioArtifacts.push('img/file.png');

// attach a picture and add a name to it
global.testomatioArtifacts.push({ name: 'Screenshot', path: 'img/file.png' });

Artifacts will be uploaded for the current test when it is finished:

If everything was configured correctly test artifacts will be uploaded on the next run.

If S3 credentials are not set, artfact file will be ignored.

Other Frameworks

For tests in Java, Python, C# and other languages, which are not (yet) integrated into Testomat.io Reporter, use JUnit format for reporting.

To attach a file to a test as an artifact print the file name into console with file:// prefix and upload XML report with Testomat.io.

If S3 credentials are set, files will be uploaded to bucket and attached to test in a report.

Java Example:

Attaching a screenshot to the Java test

// inside Java test
// assume you created a screenshot
// which is located at `pathToScreenshot`
System.out.println("file://" + pathToScreenshot);

C# Example:

Attaching a screenshot to the C# test

// assume you created a screenshot
// which is located at `pathToScreenshot`
Console.WriteLine("file://" + pathToScreenshot);

Python

Attaching a screenshot to the Python test

print("file://" + pathToScreenshot)

Ruby

Attaching a screenshot to the Ruby test

puts "file://" + path_to_screenshot

Troubleshooting

I don’t have a S3 Bucket

Well then, just get it. Even if your company doesn’t provide one, you can purchase a S3 storage by yourself.

Publishing Artifacts from Docker Container

If your tests are running within Docker container pass all environment variables explicitly

docker run -e TESTOMATIO_PRIVATE_ARTIFACTS=1 \
-e S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=11111111111111111111 \
-e S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 \
-e S3_BUCKET=artifacts \
-e S3_REGION=us-west-1 \
run-tests

Environment variables for S3 are not working

This can be caused by various reasons. As an alternative approach, you can try to set S3 credentials inside Testomat.io Application and enable shared credentials.

How to cleanup old artifacts?

At this moment we don’t provide any tools for the cleanup of files. It is recommended to write a custom cleanup tool on a S3 bucket.