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How To Capture Screenshot of Failed Test Cases Using Selenium WebDriver

How To Capture Screenshot of Failed Test Cases Using Selenium WebDriver:

Earlier I have posted a detailed post on how to capture a screenshot using Selenium WebDriver. If you have missed it, you could check the detailed post on how to capture screenshot using Selenium WebDriver.

If a script fails, we need to know where was the error in script. Solution for this is to capture a screenshot of webpage when the test case fails. We could easily identify where exactly the script got failed by seeing the screenshot.

To achieve this, we could place the entire code in try-catch block. Which means placing the test steps in try block and screen capture statement in catch block. If a test step fails in the try block then it goes to the catch block and capture a screenshot of the web page.

Below mentioned script shows how to capture a screenshot of failed test cases using Selenium WebDriver.

package softwareTestingMaterial;

import java.io.File;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class CaptureScreenshot {
	
	@Test
	public static void captureScreenMethod() throws Exception{
                System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D://Selenium Environment//Drivers//geckodriver.exe");
		WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
		driver.manage().window().maximize();
	        try{
	            driver.get("https://www.softwaretestingmaterial.com");
		    driver.navigate().refresh();
		    //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse-search-box']/div/input[4]")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with correct Xpath
		    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse']")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with incorrect Xpath	
                }catch(Exception e){
	            File screenshotFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
		    FileUtils.copyFile(screenshotFile, new File("D:\\SoftwareTestingMaterial.png"));
		}
        driver.close();
	driver.quit();		
	}
}

package softwareTestingMaterial;

import java.io.File;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;

import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class CaptureScreenshot {

@Test

public static void captureScreenMethod() throws Exception{

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D://Selenium Environment//Drivers//geckodriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.manage().window().maximize();

try{

driver.get("https://www.softwaretestingmaterial.com");

driver.navigate().refresh();

//driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse-search-box']/div/input[4]")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with correct Xpath

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse']")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with incorrect Xpath

}catch(Exception e){

File screenshotFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

FileUtils.copyFile(screenshotFile, new File("D:\\SoftwareTestingMaterial.png"));

}

driver.close();

driver.quit();

}

Another way of capturing screenshot of failed test cases using Selenium WebDriver is to use ITestResult Interface.

ITestResult interface provides the test case execution status and test case name

We do place the screen capture steps in a separate method using AfterMethod TestNG Annotation. If we use TestNG AfterMethod annotation then this particular method (AfterMethod) executes after every test execution.

Below mentioned script shows how to capture a screenshot using ITestResult Interface.

package softwareTestingMaterial;
import java.io.File;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.ITestResult;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class ScreenshotFailedCases {
	// Create Webdriver reference
	static WebDriver driver;
	
	@Test
	public static void captureScreenMethod() throws Exception{
		System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D://Selenium Environment//Drivers//geckodriver.exe");
		driver = new FirefoxDriver();
		driver.manage().window().maximize();
		driver.get("https://www.softwaretestingmaterial.com");
		driver.navigate().refresh();
		//driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse-search-box']/div/input[4]")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with correct Xpath
		driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse']")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with incorrect Xpath	
		
	}
	@AfterMethod //AfterMethod annotation - This method executes after every test execution
	public void screenShot(ITestResult result){
	//using ITestResult.FAILURE is equals to result.getStatus then it enter into if condition
		if(ITestResult.FAILURE==result.getStatus()){
			try{
				// To create reference of TakesScreenshot
				TakesScreenshot screenshot=(TakesScreenshot)driver;
				// Call method to capture screenshot
				File src=screenshot.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
				// Copy files to specific location 
				// result.getName() will return name of test case so that screenshot name will be same as test case name
				FileUtils.copyFile(src, new File("D:\\"+result.getName()+".png"));
				System.out.println("Successfully captured a screenshot");
			}catch (Exception e){
				System.out.println("Exception while taking screenshot "+e.getMessage());
			} 
	}
	driver.quit();
	}
}

package softwareTestingMaterial;

import java.io.File;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;

import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.ITestResult;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class ScreenshotFailedCases {

// Create Webdriver reference

static WebDriver driver;

@Test

public static void captureScreenMethod() throws Exception{

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D://Selenium Environment//Drivers//geckodriver.exe");

driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.get("https://www.softwaretestingmaterial.com");

driver.navigate().refresh();

//driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse-search-box']/div/input[4]")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with correct Xpath

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='cse']")).sendKeys("agile"); //Statement with incorrect Xpath

}

@AfterMethod //AfterMethod annotation - This method executes after every test execution

public void screenShot(ITestResult result){

//using ITestResult.FAILURE is equals to result.getStatus then it enter into if condition

if(ITestResult.FAILURE==result.getStatus()){

try{

// To create reference of TakesScreenshot

TakesScreenshot screenshot=(TakesScreenshot)driver;

// Call method to capture screenshot

File src=screenshot.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

// Copy files to specific location

// result.getName() will return name of test case so that screenshot name will be same as test case name

FileUtils.copyFile(src, new File("D:\\"+result.getName()+".png"));

System.out.println("Successfully captured a screenshot");

}catch (Exception e){

System.out.println("Exception while taking screenshot "+e.getMessage());

}

driver.quit();

}

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Rajkumar SM is a founder of SoftwareTestingMaterial. He is a certified Software Test Engineer by profession and blogger & youtuber by choice. He has an extensive experience in the field of Software Testing. He writes here about Software Testing which includes both Manual and Automation Testing. He loves to be with his wife and cute little kid 'Freedom'.

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6 thoughts on “How To Capture Screenshot of Failed Test Cases Using Selenium WebDriver”

LDionisio

October 16, 2017 | Reply

in the first code box, you wrote “cactch” instead of catch in the try catch section.
- Rajkumar
  
  October 16, 2017 | Reply
  
  Good catch LDionsio. Thanks. Have modified that.
Shamsher Khan

December 18, 2017 | Reply

Hi Rajkumar
thanks a lot ur explanation is very useful for interview purpose
- Rajkumar
  
  December 19, 2017 | Reply
  
  Thanks for your kind words Shamsher Khan
rajkumar

February 9, 2018 | Reply

Hi raj,,

when you are using ITestResult interface we need to implement that interface right…with out implementing interface can we directly use in screenshot method

Thanks
- Rajkumar
  
  February 13, 2018 | Reply
  
  We can use. I have mentioned two methods in the article.

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