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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide

You're reading from   Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999762
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Satya Avasarala Satya Avasarala
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements 2. Different Available WebDrivers FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium 4. Exploring the Features of WebDriver 5. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver 6. Understanding WebDriver Events 7. Exploring RemoteWebDriver 8. Setting up Selenium Grid 9. The PageObject Pattern 10. Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium 11. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Taking screenshots

Taking a screenshot of a web page is a very useful capability of WebDriver. This is very handy when your test case fails, and you want to see the state of the application when the test case failed. The TakesScreenShot interface in the WebDriver library is implemented by all of the different variants of WebDriver, such as Firefox Driver, Internet Explorer Driver, Chrome Driver, and so on.

The TakesScreenShot capability is enabled in all of the browsers by default. Because this is a read-only capability, a user cannot toggle it. Before we see a code example that uses this capability, we should look at an important method of the TakesScreenShot interface—getScreenshotAs().

The API syntax for getScreenshotAs() is as follows:

public X getScreenshotAs(OutputType target)           

Here, OutputType is another interface of the WebDriver library. We can ask...

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