Repositories

Before you can begin working with test scripts or blueprints, you must complete some setup prerequisites. You must have a repository configured to store your test files and related artifacts. Storing files locally is not supported.

Considerations

If you are going to use visual accessors, you must use a SFTP, FTP, or S3 repository. This is because Images are resource-consuming elements, at the disk, memory, and CPU level, using an S3 repository will yield the best performance. The images will be saved with the script in your S3 repository which simplifies image management.

See Visual Accessors for Web Testing for more information on the visual accessor functionality.

Appvance does not recommend using Git to store your images if your are using the Visual Accessor functionality. This is due to Git not being designed to handle large amounts of binary files efficiently.