Can I generate and share a report?

[lewisnyman]

• Use case: *
  I'm run some tests on the latest version of code and I've found some failures. Instead of fixing the myself I want to share them with my team so they can fix the problems.

Is there a way to do that now? It seems like I need a server running access the report, there's no way of generating a static report?

[garris]

Ok, some thoughts on this...

1. I think static reports are "out of scope" for BackstopJS -- The philosophy is more to enable automated testing and to run that testing very often, so I don't see effort put into persisting a particular test's results as particularly valuable. For times where someone would want to share a particular result it is easy enough to just print to PDF or screenshot then email or upload to the process management app of your choice.

2. It does make a certain amount of sense to load it onto a build machine such that others could use a live shared configuration. This implementation would be better supported with some way to manage multiple configs and reference files.

3. Better yet -- the ideal implementation is when your proactive team members are simply running this (or any other regression tests) locally to reduce regressions on their own.

[lewisnyman]

Great, I think simply printing a PDF of the page was the obvious answer I missed. Thanks!