How to test S3 image uploading on your project?

[Cleop]

How should we test the image uploading functionality on a project?

I can see this nightwatch example on this repo:
https://github.com/dwyl/image-uploads/blob/master/examples/sdk-upload/test/e2e/sdk-upload.test.js

However my concern is that every time you perform this test you are uploading a new file to S3. Unless someone in a team remembers to delete the test files on a regular basis you could end up with a lot of files. This comes as a cost on S3 if it was a large amount of data being stored.

Would it be possible/better to delete the files once they're uploaded? Or can we mock the upload in some way but still test it?

[nelsonic]

@Cleop this is an great question, thank you for opening the issue! 🥇

At risk of stating the obvious: we need to get creative on testing this while not over-complicating it.
I will add a checklist and draw a diagram of the testing flow. We will write a TDD tutorial for this even if it takes a week, future devs will thank us for years to come.

[nelsonic]

@Cleop could the file that gets uploaded to S3 simply be deleted at the end of the test?