Ingest Existing Tests

If you have existing tests (such as Playwright tests) you can configure Meticulous to record them. Meticulous will generally be able to build full coverage over your codebase without ingesting any existing tests -- however ingesting your existing tests can accelerate coverage gain in the first weeks of your setup.

This can be particularly useful if existing tests are flaky, have no visual snapshots or have limited visual snapshots. Meticulous captures visual snapshots at every point throughout the flow which can dramatically increase regression protection for these user journeys. Since it runs in a deterministic browser test suites that previously had high flake rates should not flake in Meticulous.

1. Ensure the recorder is available on the page while your tests run - see Recorder Installation.
2. Wait for recording data to be sent to Meticulous before the page is closed, or before a full page navigation (for example: page refresh or navigating to a different single page application). To do this, call window.Meticulous.record.flush() and wait for the returned promise to resolve before closing the page.
3. You can validate the recording is working as intended by running your test suite, visiting the 'All Sessions' tab on your project page in the Meticulous UI and then modifying the filter on the view to uncheck 'Hide Automated Sessions'.