c# selenium tests on azure download and confirm report files exist

Question

We have a group of tests in Selenium/C# which click on download report buttons and then validate the report has been created in the local file. We now wish to deploy these tests with our main test suite which runs on azure in a release pipeline. At the moment the tests run fine locally but not on azure. To start we have tried different paths such as

protected const string DownloadPathExt = "C:\\TestFolder\\Release\\net6.0\\";
protected const string DownloadPathExt = "D:\\a\\r1\\a\\TestFolder Regression\\";

I have noticed these are in use during the buils step. This is initially defined here

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddUserProfilePreference("download.default_directory", DownloadPathExt);

And also here

string[] filePaths = Directory.GetFiles(DownloadPath);

As you can see from this output the test is looking in whatever folder I am setting but it is not seeing the report file. So either it is not downloading or it is being created in a different folder.

2023-06-05T10:52:01.9695830Z In procedure ReadXLSFileDownloaded 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9696187Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression.editorconfig 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9696549Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression.gitattributes 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9696918Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression.gitignore 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9697378Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression\azure-pipelines.yml 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9697840Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression\azure-test-pipelines.yml 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9698236Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression\TestApp.sln 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9698608Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression\README.md 2023-06-05T10:52:01.9698967Z Checking file D:\a\r1\a_Pi Regression\xml_to_nunit.xslt Locally this is finding the downloaded report, in azure it is not. Has anyone got any ideas on what I am missing please?

Thanks in advance.

Kev

Answer 1

Hi @Kev Martin , 

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Sincerely,

Anna

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