A tutorial shows an example for screen-capture automation
Considerations on tool selection
It is important to choose the right tool or open source framework to automate the screen capture creation task. However, it can be challenging to identify the perfect fit due to the product architecture and technology used by different development teams. Nevertheless, most organizations look for similar key characteristics in a tool or framework:
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Easy script development: The tool or framework should support agile processes and short iterations.
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Support for multiple languages: The framework should provide language support for different app platforms, such as JavaScript, Java, Python, and other necessary coding languages.
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Support for the latest platform capabilities: An open-source framework should receive regular updates and remain compatible with the latest operating system features to avoid framework gaps.
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Support for screen capture: The screen capture methods and features could capture screenshots in scripts as requirement.
Choosing the best tool or framework can be challenging. To help you evaluate features and narrow down your options, we have compiled a list of some open-source tools and frameworks, including:
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Selenium, which supports script languages such as Java, Python, and JavaScript.
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Cypress, which supports JavaScript.
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Playwright, which supports script languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and .Net.
Choosing a tool or framework is a very personalized process that requires consideration of multiple factors. You may want to choose a tool or framework that is compatible with the programming language, which you are familiar with.
Selenium is widely used for web application automation testing, while Cypress is better suited for testing React applications. Playwright can be used for testing web applications as well.
If your automated testing requires high performance, you may need to choose a fast and reliable automated testing framework. Cypress is considered a very fast framework, and Playwright can also provide you with fast and reliable testing.
Choosing an widely used automated testing framework with strong community support is a good idea. This will ensure that you have sufficient documentation and support to solve the problems you encounter when using the framework. Selenium is a widely used framework, so it has a very strong community support. Similarly, Cypress and Playwright also have a rapidly growing community support.
Common rule to run automation in multiple language environment
If there is existed UI test script, we could try to reuse the existed UI test script to do the screens shots capture.
There are some common rules to develop automation that could be ran in multiple languages,:
- Avoid locate page object with language related attributes or implement parameterized locators for Page Object
- For web applications, locate the elements with non language specific attributes, Refer to this article for a real case.
- Consider UI language switch mechanism
- Some products takes operation system or browser configuration to decide the displayed language, others might have user profile to store the language preference for each user. Automation scripts need to design the mechanism to handle the locale switch. For example, set the preferred language in browser options, here is the snippet to set it in chrome option.
Reference link
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Screenshot Testing with Selenium, Cypress and Playwright: 3 Popular Automation Tools Deliver Amazingly Different Screenshots