Video for Your Selenium Tests Using FFmpeg

Using screenshots for your Selenium tests when they fail is cool, but there are some limitations. For example, it’s hard to know exactly what happened before a failure occurred using a snapshot. In my case, the biggest issue is that our applications sometimes have random modal popups appear that cause the Selenium image to be just a black screen — at least that’s my theory.

The problem is that the image only shows the browser’s viewport, not the full desktop. Rather than a screenshot, I feel that having a video recording would better help me to debug what is actually happening.

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