Snapshots of the application under test

[Mercedes]

How can i get snapshots of the web application during the test execution?

[Steven]

With the test open, choose Browser Capture (or Desktop Capture, if you'd prefer) from the More... (green circle) button in the tool ribbon's Add section. See attached screenshot. 

The difficulty I had was then in actually locating the screenshot; on my system they're put into C:\WebAiiLog rather than  C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Test Studio Projects\[project name]\Results as I had expected. 

[Mercedes]

Perfect !!!

Thank you,
Nithin

[Mercedes]

I was able to modify the location to capture the screenshots to a desired location. All the screenshots are stored in the same location. I would like to create a new folder for every Iteration based on the iteration number. Can that be done?

[Mario]

Hello Brian,

Thank you for your question.

We can certainly check for existing folders and create new ones with a line of code:

System.IO.Directory.Exists(folderName);



System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(folderName);

In order to apply this to create a new folder based on iteration number (eg. in a data-driven test) in a script step, we can use a while loop to check/create a unique folder (with name '1', '2', '3' ...) for each image:

int i = 1;
string folderName = "c:\\MySnapshots\\" + i.ToString();
while(System.IO.Directory.Exists(folderName))
{
    i++;
    folderName = "c:\\MySnapshots\\" + i.ToString();
}
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(folderName);
Log.CaptureBrowser(ActiveBrowser, folderName + "\\snapshot");

Let me know whether my suggestion helps or if you have any additional questions.

Kind regards,
Mario
the Telerik team

[Kate]

To do that, you can press "Alt"+"PrtScn" keys to screenshot the web application window under test. Or you can make use of simple yet rich-featured screenshot tools like Free Screenshot Capture, PicPick, Jing and others.

[Boyan Boev]

Hello Kate,

Thank you for you input. 

This is an approach where you use a third party software for making screen shots.

As Steven Vore wrote we have a build-in functionality for taking snapshots in Test Studio automatically during the test execution.

Thank you for helping other we really appreciate it.

Regards,
Boyan Boev
Telerik