Difference between aShot and Shutterbug in selenium

Question

I a trying to learn capturing screenshots in selenium. Came to know about aShot() and Shutterbug classes which is a third party Api for webdriver.

What are the key Differences and Which has Advantages

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

ashot

ashot is a WebDriver screenshot utility to take screenshots, crop, prettify, compare. It can be used for the following purposes:

• Taking a screenshot of a WebElement on different platforms (i.e. desktop browsers, iOS Simulator Mobile Safari, Android Emulator Browser)
• Decorating screenshots.
• Providing flexible screenshot comparisons.

Maven dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>ru.yandex.qatools.ashot</groupId>
    <artifactId>ashot</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.2</version>
</dependency>

You can find a couple of detailed relevant discussions in:

• How to capture screenshot of a WebElement within a webpage but not the entire screen or page through Selenium
• How to take full page screenshot using AShot library through Selenium and Java

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selenium-shutterbug

selenium-shutterbug is a utility library written in Java for making screenshots using Selenium WebDriver and further customizing, comparing and processing them with the help of Java AWT.

Maven dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.assertthat</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-shutterbug</artifactId>
    <version>x.x</version>
    <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
     </exclusions>
</dependency>

Using Gradle:

compile ('com.assertthat:selenium-shutterbug:x.x') {
    exclude group: "org.seleniumhq.selenium", name: "selenium-java"
    }

Using SBT:

"com.assertthat" % "selenium-shutterbug" % "x.x" exclude("org.seleniumhq.selenium", "selenium-java"),

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Can the screeenshots generated by selenium-shutterbug be saved with extension as jpg instead of png?

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Difference

The big difference between them is, ashot works only when the webpage supports jquery.

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Reference

How to take screenshot with Selenium WebDriver

Answer 2

Ashot() source

Ashot() is a third party utility supported by Selenium WebDriver to capture the screen shots. The below are the features supported by aShot() utility with repect to screenshots:

Capturing the entire page
Capture the Web Element
Prettifying the screenshot
Screenshot comparison
Several elements comparison

Our focus here is on capturing the entire page and capturing the web element screenshots.

Shutterstock source Not sure whether its a tool to capture screenshots in selenium

Shutterstock is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools;

If you want to perform some other things like Capturing the entire page, Screenshot comparison etc. as mentioned above. Need some third part libraries. aShot is one of them.

Other then this we can simply capture only visible part screenshot using TakesScreenshot interface in Selenium.