Storing unit testing file artifacts

I'm working on an automated unit testing setup in MATLAB for an external program. In our scenario, MATLAB does the test setup (copying input files in place), executes the external program, and reads the output files to verify their contents.

This is all working great using MATLAB's class-based unit test framework - developers can kick off runtests and see their results in the command window in just a few minutes.

Now what I want to do is automate this on a regression test server and store the results. I see mentions in a couple other answers for how to store image/figure artifacts, but what about files? What I really want is this workflow:

>> runtests % scheduled, started automatically

...runs...

New folder: /mytests/testrun_yyyymmdd

Contents:

Test1_artifact1.txt

Test1_artifact2.txt

TestReport.pdf

etc.

This may be a manual job, but if there are hooks in the MATLAB framework to help, I'd like to use them.

Thanks.

[Andy Campbell]

also, are you using a specific CI server? There may be other features/integrations tthat might help depending on what you are using.

Answer 1

[Harshendra Shah]

Hi Joel,

You can import FileArtifacts class inside your testpoint and use it to copy the files to a new location.

Please refer to the following link for the same.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.unittest.diagnostics.fileartifact-class.html

Regards,

Harshendra