How To Capture Screenshot Using Selenium WebDriver

Capture Screenshot Using Selenium WebDriver:

Test cases may fail while executing the test cases. While we are executing the test cases manually we just take a screenshot and place in a result repository. The same can be done by using Selenium WebDriver. Here in this post, we see how to capture a screenshot using Selenium WebDriver.

Some of the scenarios we may need to capture screenshot using Selenium WebDriver.

i. Application issues
ii. Assertion Failure
iii. Difficulty to find Webelements on the web page
iv. Timeout to find Webelements on the web page

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

Syntax to capture and save the screenshot.

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

Syntax to store it in our local drive

FileUtils.copyFile(screenshotFile, new File("filename_with_path"));

For example:

FileUtils.copyFile(screenshotFile, new FIle("D:\\screenshot.png"));

Below mentioned script shows how to capture a screenshot 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();
		driver.get("https://www.softwaretestingmaterial.com/capture-screenshot-using-selenium-webdriver");
		File screenshotFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
		FileUtils.copyFile(screenshotFile, new File("D:\\SoftwareTestingMaterial.png"));
		driver.close();
		driver.quit();		
	}
}

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