What is the Blob Reporter?
In researching a solution for combining test results when using sharding I came across a merge of the Blob Reporter back in April. I can't find any documentation on it though. https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/22244 I've been waiting on two things and I'm wondering if the blob reporter might address it
- An html reporter that supports sharding. (I see this is still open, yet the blob reporter changes is linked in there) https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/10437
- I'd like the junit reporter to work with sharding as well. While I don't actually read the junit report, (the html report is better), generating one allows jenkins to set the build status as "yellow" if there's test failures. Is the blob reporter what I've been waiting for? Thanks!
This thread is trying to answer question "Is the blob reporter what I've been waiting for?"
Not released? I believe you but help me understand what you mean by not released. I'm using it right now in version 1.35.1 and it's working great for html and junit reporters. I added the blob reporter to my project and it output results to the blob-report directory. I ran it again while specifying a 2nd shard and the results were added to blob-report dir. I then ran
npx playwright merge-reports blob-report --reporter=html and it successfully produced a combined html report from multiple shards.
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