Add functionality to TUnit.Playwright to easily record videos for tests - #6799
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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RecordVideoAttribute
participant ContextTest
participant BrowserTest
participant TestResult
RecordVideoAttribute->>ContextTest: provide recording settings
ContextTest->>ContextTest: copy options and enable video recording
BrowserTest->>BrowserTest: track pages and collect videos before context closure
BrowserTest->>TestResult: attach renamed video artifacts
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Greptile SummaryAdds opt-in Playwright video recording for individual tests.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge, with only the existing non-blocking attribute-target restriction issue still outstanding. The public API snapshot defaults now match the implementation, the closed-page recording and context-option copying findings are resolved, and no new failure was introduced since the previous review. The existing RecordVideoAttribute target finding remains unresolved because the attribute still lacks AttributeUsage restricting it to methods. Files Needing Attention: src/TUnit.Playwright/RecordVideoAttribute.cs
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| src/TUnit.Playwright/RecordVideoAttribute.cs | Introduces the recording attribute and discovery callback, but the previous finding about its unrestricted attribute targets remains outstanding. |
| src/TUnit.Playwright/ContextTest.cs | Applies per-test recording options through a copy of configured defaults, preserving shared settings. |
| src/TUnit.Playwright/BrowserTest.cs | Tracks pages through closure, finalizes recordings during teardown, safely resolves naming collisions, and attaches artifacts. |
| docs/docs/examples/playwright.md | Documents method-level recording usage, configuration, defaults, and artifact behavior. |
| tests/TUnit.PublicAPI/Tests.Playwright_Library_Has_No_API_Changes.DotNet10_0.verified.txt | Records the new public API with constructor defaults matching the implementation. |
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A[Test with RecordVideo] --> B[Store recording settings]
B --> C[Create browser context]
C --> D[Track every opened page]
D --> E[Close contexts at teardown]
E --> F[Resolve completed video paths]
F --> G[Rename recordings]
G --> H[Attach artifacts to test output]
Reviews (7): Last reviewed commit: "docs: apply [RecordVideo] per-test rathe..." | Re-trigger Greptile
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| public class RecordVideoAttribute : .TUnitAttribute, ., . | ||
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| public RecordVideoAttribute(string path = "playwright-artifacts/", int width = 1280, int height = 1400) { } |
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The accepted snapshot declares the constructor default as "playwright-artifacts/", but RecordVideoAttribute compiles with "playwright-artifacts". Public API verification will therefore continue to report a mismatch. The .NET 8, .NET 9, and .NET Framework 4.7 snapshots contain the same mismatch and should be updated as well.
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have addressed this
| public class RecordVideoAttribute(string path = "playwright-artifacts", int width = 1280, int height = 1400) | ||
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Without AttributeUsage, the CLR permits this attribute on classes, assemblies, properties, and other targets even though it is intended for test methods. Discovery includes class attributes, so applying [RecordVideo] to a class silently enables recording for every test in that class. Restricting it to methods would make unsupported placements fail at compile time.
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| public class RecordVideoAttribute(string path = "playwright-artifacts", int width = 1280, int height = 1400) | |
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The constructor exposes "playwright-artifacts", while every committed Playwright .verified.txt snapshot records the optional argument as "playwright-artifacts/". Therefore tests/TUnit.PublicAPI will produce a received diff and fail for every target framework; either the constructor default or all four snapshots must be corrected so they agree. CLAUDE.mdL15-L16
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When a test calls Page.CloseAsync() before this hook—for example while testing a multi-page workflow—the closed page is no longer present in IBrowserContext.Pages, so its IVideo is never captured here. Playwright still writes that recording, but this code then neither renames nor attaches it; track video references as pages are created or closed rather than enumerating only the pages that remain open at teardown.
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| target = Path.Combine(directory, $"{baseName}{suffix}-{n}.webm"); |
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When same-named tests or data variants record concurrently into the same directory, they derive the same target because baseName contains only Metadata.TestName. Both can pass this File.Exists check before either moves its file; one File.Move then throws, and the broad catch leaves that video hash-named and unattached. Handle move collisions by choosing and retrying a new name atomically, or include a unique test identity in the filename.
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In `@src/TUnit.Playwright/BrowserTest.cs`:
- Line 153: Update ContextTest’s video-target allocation around File.Move so
concurrent cases with the same TestName cannot select the same destination:
atomically reserve and move to the target, retrying with the next suffix when a
destination collision occurs. Preserve AttachArtifact for the successfully moved
video, and ensure a collision does not discard the losing video before
attachment.
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`@tests/TUnit.PublicAPI/Tests.Playwright_Library_Has_No_API_Changes.Net4_7.verified.txt`:
- Line 125: Update the RecordVideoAttribute default path from
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PublicAPI .verified.txt baselines and the corresponding XML documentation,
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| public RecordVideoAttribute(string path = "playwright-artifacts/", int width = 1280, int height = 1400) { } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Align the API baselines and documentation with the declared default.
RecordVideoAttribute declares path = "playwright-artifacts", but all four Playwright PublicAPI baselines use "playwright-artifacts/". The API verification compares the generated signature with each target-framework baseline, so this mismatch can fail the normal verification workflow.
Change the default to "playwright-artifacts" in all four Playwright .verified.txt baselines and in the XML documentation.
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`@tests/TUnit.PublicAPI/Tests.Playwright_Library_Has_No_API_Changes.Net4_7.verified.txt`
at line 125, Update the RecordVideoAttribute default path from
"playwright-artifacts/" to "playwright-artifacts" in all four Playwright
PublicAPI .verified.txt baselines and the corresponding XML documentation,
keeping the other constructor defaults unchanged.
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Review: Playwright video recording (RecordVideoAttribute)Nice feature — opt-in recording, sensible teardown-time renaming so CI artifacts are identifiable, and it composes cleanly with the existing 1. Public API snapshot will fail CI (
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Add <param> tags describing path, width, and height so IntelliSense shows them when applying [RecordVideo(...)]; also syncs the TUnit.PublicAPI snapshots with the non-nullable path default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nual clone BrowserNewContextOptions(BrowserNewContextOptions) already exists and is used elsewhere in this project (PlaywrightTelemetryHeaders.cs), making the hand-rolled field-by-field CloneOptions unnecessary and a maintenance risk (it silently drops any new option property added in a future Playwright SDK bump). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I have updated the PR to address a couple of the comments from the review bots (the PR is better for them). I did think about item 3 - the naming of the file with conflicting test names. I do think it's at least somewhat unlikely - but more likely is putting a record video on a data-driven test. Then I guess the question is whether a sequential name is "good enough" or if the "TestName" could actually be from the DisplayName of the test. Open to suggestions on approach here (or whether just leaving it as-is is good enough for now). |
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Thanks for this @dahlsailrunner ! I think sequential file naming is fine 😄 Let's add a retry around it for any races. Also there's the issue around the page closing early losing videos if we could fix that? |
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IBrowserContext.Pages drops a page as soon as it closes, and closing a page early is an established way to flush its video recording. Track pages via the context's Page event instead so their videos are still discovered and attached at teardown. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
File.Exists then File.Move is a check-then-act race: a concurrently running test can claim the target name in between. Move first and retry with an incremented counter only when the move itself fails because the target already exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ReviewNice feature, and the follow-up commits since the last round of feedback address the concrete issues raised earlier in the thread:
One item from Greptile's earlier pass is still outstanding and worth a look before merge:
Everything else checks out: the |
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I believe the last two pushes address the comments you had @thomhurst -- if the code looks good I can make some additions to the docs for this |
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Thanks @dahlsailrunner ! Looks good to me 😄 |
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Recording every context in a class is wasteful when only a handful of tests need it - per-test application keeps the cost limited to tests being debugged or that are flaky. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Doc update submitted. I think unless there is other housekeeping like a version update, everything that I was hoping to include in this PR is in place. Let me know if you need anything else from me to consider merging. Thanks! |
Code ReviewReviewed the Playwright video-recording feature (`RecordVideoAttribute`, `ContextTest`, `BrowserTest`). The core mechanism in `BrowserTest`/`ContextTest` (snapshot pages before closing contexts, since `IVideo.PathAsync()` only resolves once flushed, then rename/attach) is a solid design — nice attention to the fact that `IBrowserContext.Pages` drops closed pages and that renames need to happen before the context closes but before results report. A few issues worth addressing before merge: 1.
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Let me know if any additional iteration on this is needed @thomhurst . I'm thinking it's ok as-is but the latest copilot review surfaced some new stuff. |
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Thanks @dahlsailrunner ! |
Description
Adds three things (all related to recording videos for Playwright tests):
[RecordVideo]attribute that can be applied to test methods (not classes). It has three parameters: path (defaults toplaywright-artifacts, width (defaults to 1280), and height (defaults to 1400). If no parameters are provided, a recorded video (webmformat) will be created in thebin/Debug/Net10directory of the test project (or Release or other target framework) with 1280x1400 as its viewport dimensionsMetadata.TestNameproperty - and will use counters for multiple tests / files with the same TestName (.e.g.-1,-2, etc)Any Playwright tests that do NOT have the
[RecordVideo]attribute on them will behave exactly as they did before this attribute was introduced.There didn't seem to be a test project that had Playwright tests in it that I could add on to, but I did reference the built, updated projects locally in my own test projects and made sure the new attribute behaved as I would expect.
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dotnet test)Additional Notes
I implemented the changes via Claude based on some work that I did on a test project -- thanks for all of the good Claude harness content to ensure compliance with Contributing guidelines!
playwright-artifactsfolder within theTestResultsfolder that gets created during a test run. This would make the recordings easier to see / find (and open/view) and enable easier cleanup from old test runs or preservation with an old test run if needed. I tried it, but reverted the change - when you run from the VS Code Test Explorer the TestResults ends up in the bin/Debug/Net10.0 directory of the test project; in Visual Studio, TestResults is (more correctly, imo) off the root folder of the repo; and I didn't try Rider. Maybe if the VS Code TestExplorer is changed to behave like Visual Studio, this change can be made.src/TUnit.Templates/content/TUnit.Playwright/Tests.cswhich only gets executed in CI pipelines. But I confirmed in my own project that the new attribute works with and without parameters and that the videos get recorded.Summary by CodeRabbit
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