Taking screenshots on failure using Robot framework

Question

I am new to robot framework. I want to know how to capture screenshots on failure. Doesnt robot framework automatically take screenshots if script fails? An example will be of great help!

Answer 1

this is actually a feature of the Selenium2Library that would be required with Robot if you were doing Selenium based tests.

More information can be found here: http://robotframework.org/Selenium2Library/doc/Selenium2Library.html

As it says it the documentation, setting up screenshots on failure is very easy, for example here is mine from a test suite I'm working with:

Library    Selenium2Library  timeout=10   implicit_wait=1.5   run_on_failure=Capture Page Screenshot

Answer 2

You can use the below keyword to capture screen shot after any of the step you want :

Capture Page Screenshot

Hope so this was helpful!