Capturing video of a Running Test In Selenium-Java

Agenda of this blog: To discuss about how to capture the video of a running automation (here Selenium as an example) test-script using Java.

Why it is required:

While coming to running automation test script it is very useful to capture the video of it, because sometimes you have many test scripts (some times more than 1000 test scripts),there its sometimes very tedious to continuously monitor running scripts(which is getting failed) to get the failure reason for the same and merging these video in reports will provide better reporting.

So in that case video recording is very useful as it will show the full execution of the same and from there you can easily identify the place of failure for test-script where and reason for the same.

How to achieve the video recording feature:

We need to follow below approach to achieve the same:

1.  We need to download a jar called monte-screenrecorder and use the same in the project build path .

      2. Write a class which will implement the logic for the recording(Find the below code snippet for the same)and use it in the Test classes.

package recordingVideo;

import static org.monte.media.FormatKeys.EncodingKey;

import static org.monte.media.FormatKeys.FrameRateKey;

import static org.monte.media.FormatKeys.KeyFrameIntervalKey;

import static org.monte.media.FormatKeys.MIME_AVI;

import static org.monte.media.FormatKeys.MediaTypeKey;

import static org.monte.media.FormatKeys.MimeTypeKey;

import static org.monte.media.VideoFormatKeys.CompressorNameKey;

import static org.monte.media.VideoFormatKeys.DepthKey;

import static org.monte.media.VideoFormatKeys.ENCODING_AVI_TECHSMITH_SCREEN_CAPTURE;

import static org.monte.media.VideoFormatKeys.QualityKey;

import java.awt.GraphicsConfiguration;

import java.awt.GraphicsDevice;

import java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.monte.media.Format;

import org.monte.media.FormatKeys.MediaType;

import org.monte.media.math.Rational;

import org.monte.screenrecorder.ScreenRecorder;

public class Record {

                private static ScreenRecorder screenRecorder;

                /**

                 * Method to start the video capturing using monte screen recorder.

                 */

                public static void startVideoCapture()

                {

                                try

                                {

                                                                GraphicsDevice gd = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getDefaultScreenDevice();

                                                                int width = gd.getDisplayMode().getWidth();

                                                                int height = gd.getDisplayMode().getHeight();

                                                                java.awt.Rectangle captureArea = new java.awt.Rectangle(width,height);

                                                                GraphicsConfiguration gc = GraphicsEnvironment

                                            .getLocalGraphicsEnvironment()

                                            .getDefaultScreenDevice()

                                            .getDefaultConfiguration();

                                                                File mediaFolder = new File("E:\\tESTvIDEO");     

                                                                screenRecorder = new ScreenRecorder(gc,captureArea,

                                                                       new Format(MediaTypeKey, MediaType.FILE, MimeTypeKey, MIME_AVI),

                                                                       new Format(MediaTypeKey, MediaType.VIDEO, EncodingKey, ENCODING_AVI_TECHSMITH_SCREEN_CAPTURE,

                                                                            CompressorNameKey, ENCODING_AVI_TECHSMITH_SCREEN_CAPTURE,

                                                                            DepthKey, 24, FrameRateKey, Rational.valueOf(15),

                                                                            QualityKey, 1.0f,

                                                                            KeyFrameIntervalKey, 15 * 60),

                                                                       new Format(MediaTypeKey, MediaType.VIDEO, EncodingKey, "black",

                                                                            FrameRateKey, Rational.valueOf(30)),

                                                                      null,mediaFolder);

               

                                                                screenRecorder.start();

                                               

                                }

                               

                                catch(Exception ex){

                                ex.printStackTrace();

                                }

                               

                }             

               

                /**

                 * Method to stop the video recording.

                 */

                public static void stopVideoCapture()

                {

                                try

                                {

                                               

                                                {

                                                                screenRecorder.stop();

                                               

                                                }

                                }

               

                                catch(IOException e)

                                {

                                                e.printStackTrace();

                                }

                                catch (Exception e) {

                                                e.printStackTrace();

                                }

                }

}

  

We need to call to methods, One for starting the recording and other for stopping the recording,we can call these methods in the @BeforeMethod and @AfterMethod(TestNg annotations) respectively.

Find the below code snippet for the Demo test Class which will record the execution of opening chrome browser and navigating to google.com.

package recordingVideo;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class Demo {

                Record record=new Record();

                WebDriver driver;

                @BeforeMethod

                public void startRecording(){

                                System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "..\\AdvanceConcepts\\src\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");

                                driver=new ChromeDriver();

                                record.startVideoCapture();

                }

               

                @AfterMethod

                public void stopRecording(){

                                record.stopVideoCapture();

                                driver.close();

                }

               

               

                @Test

                public void openGoogleTest(){

                                driver.get("https://www.google.co.in/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=FprqVs3OG-3I8Ae587ioAQ");

                               

                               

                }

}

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