How to Capture Screenshot when test failes with Selenium Webdriver

As we know it is very important to know the reason behind test failure we need to capture screenshot when test case fails. The reasons behind test failure can be a bug in application or error in our automation scripts so to know the exact problem it is very important to capture screenshot on test case failure.

I have already wrote a post on how to take screenshot you can refer that Post HERE. In this post we will see how to capture screenshot in case of test case failure.

1. ITestResult Interface  - this will provide us the test case execution status and test case name.

2. @AfterMethod - An annotation of TestNG which will execute after every test execution irrespective of  test case pass or fail @AfterMethod will always execute.

Lets take look complete code -

package captureScreenshot;
 
// Import all classes and interface
import java.io.File;
import library.Utility;
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 FacebookScreenshotExample {
 
// Create Webdriver reference
WebDriver driver; 

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\Anuja.AnujaPC\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
 driver=new ChromeDriver(); 

 @Test
public void captureScreenshot() throws Exception
{
 
// Initiate Chrome browser

 
// Maximize the browser
driver.manage().window().maximize();
 
// Pass application url
driver.get("http://www.facebook.com");
 
// Here we are forcefully passing wrong id so that it will fail our testcase
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='emailasdasdas']")).sendKeys("QA Automated");
 
 
}
 
 
 
 
 
// It will execute after every test execution 
@AfterMethod
public void tearDown(ITestResult result)
{
 
// Here will compare if test is failing then only it will enter into if condition
if(ITestResult.FAILURE==result.getStatus())
{
try 
{
// Create refernce of TakesScreenshot
TakesScreenshot ts=(TakesScreenshot)driver;
 
// Call method to capture screenshot
File source=ts.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
 
// Copy files to specific location here it will save all screenshot in our project home directory and
// result.getName() will return name of test case so that screenshot name will be same
FileUtils.copyFile(source, new File("./ScreenShots/"+result.getName()+".png"));
 
System.out.println("Screenshot taken");
} 
catch (Exception e)
{
 
System.out.println("Exception while taking screenshot "+e.getMessage());
} 
 
 
 
}
// close application
driver.quit();
}
 
 
 
}

How to Scroll using Selenium WebDriver

In this post we are going to talk about how exactly we can scroll this using Selenium. Unfortunately Selenium does not have inbuilt method which allow us to scroll into view but, we can scroll into view in Selenium using JavaScript executor.


Now let us see the detailed code on how to Scroll using Selenium WebDriver

package test;


import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;


public class ScrollTest {
 
     @Test
 public  void test() {

  // Start browser
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Softwares\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
  WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();


  // Maximize browser

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



  // Pass application URL

  driver.get("http://www.qaautomated.com");



  // Create instance of Javascript executor

  JavascriptExecutor je = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;



  //Identify the WebElement which will appear after scrolling down

  WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='colophonpbt']"));



  // now execute query which actually will scroll until that element is not appeared on page.

  je.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);",element);



  // Extract the text and verify

  System.out.println(element.getText());
  
  //close browser
  driver.quit();

  }
     
}