Capturing screenshots with a timestamp

In order to identify the failures of test scripts, It is very important to capture screenshot when we execute them.

In this post, I will explain how we can capture screenshots with time stamp using Selenium WebDriver.

Please find the below sample code for the same.

Sample code:

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.sql.Timestamp;

import java.util.Date;

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.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TakeScreenShot {

public WebDriver driver;

@Test

public void setup() throws IOException{

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "E:/Selenium Jars/chromedriver.exe");

driver= new ChromeDriver();

//System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:/Users/sudharsana/Downloads/geckodriver.exe");

//driver = new FirefoxDriver();

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

driver.get("http://way2selenium.com");

//screenshot

takesScreenshot(driver, "Home Page");

}

//Reusable Method for capturing screenshot

public void takesScreenshot(WebDriver driver , String ScreenshotName) throws IOException{

       

               //Creating Object for Date

Date date = new Date();

//Creating object for time stamp

Timestamp timestamp= new Timestamp(date.getTime());

//converting date format to String

String time=timestamp.toString();

//replacing all spaces with '-'

time = time.replace(' ', '-');

//replacing all colons with '-'

time = time.replace(':', '-'); 

//Capturing screenshot as File output type 

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

//copying screenshot to local machine directory

FileUtils.copyFile(screen, new                          File(System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\Screenshots\\"+"_"+ScreenshotName+"_"+time+"_"+"_"+".jpg"));

  

}

}