Test Artifact Management
Test artifacts are crucial outputs generated during software testing - from test reports and coverage data to screenshots and log files. Managing these artifacts effectively is essential for debugging, compliance, and continuous improvement of your testing process. Furthermore, the metainformation these artifacts provides is often crucial and consistently overlooked in organizations.
Why Test Artifacts Matter
- Debugging Efficiency: Quick access to test reports and logs speeds up issue resolution
- Audit Requirements: Maintain testing evidence for compliance and certification
- Knowledge Sharing: Enable collaboration across teams with centralized test results
- Historical Analysis: Track testing trends and patterns over time
The HTML Advantage
Even with the rise and fall of testing frameworks, simple HTML reports remain the most versatile format for test reports.
- Universal Compatibility: Viewable on any device with a web browser
- Easily extendedable: Easily inject any extra test data as JSON into the page.
- Rich Content Support: Combines text, images, interactive elements, and styling
- No Special Software: No proprietary tools needed to view reports
- Easy to Generate: Most testing frameworks support HTML report generation
