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