One of the most performed actions of any webpage tester is taking a screenshot of the webpage. Whenever a tester finds and reports a bug, that bug would not be taken seriously without supporting screenshots or even videos of the issue. This is equally true no matter the type of testing you are doing and that includes selenium automation testing.<\/p>\n
In automation testing, especially where a typical test run may involve hundreds of commands and test cases, automated screenshots taken at critical assertions are important for developers and testers in making sure that every test case executed as it should. These proofs are in-turn used for debugging, to find out what went wrong and the reason for failure. For automation testing with selenium<\/a>, these screenshots help to distinguish whether the failures are due to application failure or due to script failure.<\/p>\n Now with that said, when we say screenshot we could mean capturing an image of any part of the screen including the image of an element in question or even a screenshot of the whole page. Therefore in this post, we would be looking at how you can take automated screenshots of web pages for different purposes using Selenium WebDriver automation scripts. To start off, there are four major ways of capturing screenshot images using Selenium Webdriver. Such as :<\/p>\n This is the most used approach of taking screenshots of applications under automation and the easiest one as well. Selenium provides an out-of-the-box capability called TakeScreenShot interface that can be used for taking screenshots of the viewable area.<\/p>\n\n
Automated Selenium Test Scripts for Taking Screenshots of Viewable Area<\/h2>\n