Call for input: Test attachment use-cases needed

[gasparnagy]

Reqnroll provides an API to register a test attachment: IReqnrollOutputHelper.AddAttachment. This was forwarding the event to the test frameworks and included the file into the HTML report (when used) as embedded data.

The new version of Cucumber Messages (the infrastructure we use for reporting) will support linked attachments in addition to the embedded ones, so we started to have a discussion on how we could utilize that.

We have realized, however, that we don't have enough real-life use cases to make the best design.

So if you have used test attachments in combination of reports (not necessarily Reqnroll, but in general) and had to choose whether to embed the attachments or not, please share your use-case.

• Why would you want linked files instead of embedded ones?
• In which cases (for which files) you want to use linked ones?
• In what file/folder structure would you like to have the files for linking?
• Do you expect the tool (Reqnroll) to copy the files to that structure or would you take care of the structure of yourself?

Please post your use-case to https://github.com/orgs/reqnroll/discussions/1011 (that has some discussion of the design/technical details, but feel free to ignore those).