Possibility to record the test suite as one video

[Yu Li]

My test suites are organized as such:

describe("place order from basket", () => {
    it("login", () => {
        browser.login_testuser()
    })

    it("go to /basket/delivery", () => {
        browser.urlAndWait("/basket/delivery")
    })

    it("click nextday", function() {
        $("input[name=delivery_method][value=nextday]").click()
    })

    it('fill [name="delivery_address"]', () => {
        $('[name="delivery_address"]').addValue(
            "XYZ Road"
        )
    })

...

Where each it is one user action. Right now each it generates a separate video. I'd like to know if it is possible to generate the video for the entire suite.

Thank you.

[Yu Li]

I created a hack to get around this:
https://github.com/ylilarry/wdio-video-reporter/pull/1/files
Please feel free to take it.

[Jason Williams]

+1 on this, i would be interested in seeing the whole suite as a video also.
Hope this makes its way upstream

[Johan Hernefeldt]

@ylilarry Would you mind opening a PR since there seems to be interest in this functionality?
Ill try to have a look as soon as I can

[Yu Li]

There are a few details that need to be discussed:

1. How to determine the video file name
2. What to do when two videos have the same name

My hack works for me because I deliberately made sure each suite contains one root describe that has a unique description.

However, a suite can be as such

describe('A', function() {
   it('aa', ...)
})

describe ('B', function() {
})

In intuitive way to is to name the video file A+B.

@jasonwilliams Would you provide some insight on how you'd use this feature?

[Jason Williams]

A-B would make more sense and be more consistent with how things are named now.

Would you provide some insight on how you'd use this feature?

basically as you mentioned, as a way of watching the whole suite we have tests where each it() is a user interaction so right now the videos are quite short.

I would like this to be optional though as we don’t always need it, so some way of switching between how it is now and the full describe

[Jason Williams]

@ylilarry is there a reason you haven't opened a PR with your changes on this repo?

[Johan Hernefeldt]

I mentioned in a different issue that a similar functionality could be solved kind of easily with a post-processor that joins the video after the run.

Would this be an ok solution for this issue as well?

[Jason Williams]

I mentioned in a different issue that a similar functionality could be solved kind of easily with a post-processor that joins the video after the run.

Would this be an ok solution for this issue as well?

Sounds good to me

[Christian Bromann]

Thanks for raising this issue.

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