Creating a multi-stage YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps for .NET projects
Running tests with code coverage in Azure DevOps YAML pipelines
Static code analysis with NDepend in Azure Pipelines
Running e2e tests with Playwright in Azure YAML Pipelines
Publishing Playwright report as an artifact in Azure DevOps
Bicep Infrastructure Deployment from Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
Blue-green Deployments in Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
Pre-Deployment Health Checks in Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
Azure DevOps Best Practices: Breaking Down the Monolithic YAML
My team is working on a product with a React website as the client and a C# ASP.NET Web API as the server. It's important to run end-to-end (e2e) tests with Playwright before each release to ensure that we didn't break anything. Running them from the React repository (let's call it "Frontend") is easy, but I want to show how we run them from the ASP.NET repository (let's call it "Backend") as well.
Running Playwright e2e tests
Running e2e tests with Playwright is relatively simple, and the YAML configuration looks like this:
- job: e2etests
displayName: 'E2E tests'
steps:
- task: Bash@3
inputs:
filePath: './setup.sh'
arguments: 'e2e'
displayName: 'run e2e tests'
Our setup.sh file has several options (such as init which is essentially npm install, unit tests, etc.), but for the sake of simplicity, I'm only showing the command to run the e2e tests with Playwright:
pnpm dlx playwright@1.30.0 test --project=chromium
Running Playwright e2e tests from another repository
When we want to run the e2e tests from our Backend repository, we need to clone the Frontend repository first in the pipeline. Otherwise, we cannot access the e2e tests. To do this, we add the Frontend repository as a resource in our pipeline YAML:
resources:
repositories:
- repository: Frontend
type: git
name: YourAzureDevopsProjectName/Frontend
To run the e2e tests, we can reuse the job from the Frontend pipeline and add another step that checks out the Frontend repository:
- job: e2etests
displayName: 'E2E tests running in backend repo'
steps:
- checkout: Frontend
- task: Bash@3
inputs:
filePath: './setup.sh'
arguments: 'e2e'
That's it. Just two things are required to run tests from another repository: add the resource as a repository, and perform a checkout. Then, you're good to go.
