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NAME

Selenium::Screenshot - Compare and contrast Webdriver screenshots in PNG format

INSTALLATION

This module depends on Image::Compare for comparison, and Imager::File::PNG for PNG support. The latter depends on libpng-devel; consult your local googles on how to get the appropriate libraries installed on your system. The following commands may be of aid on linux systems, or they may not help at all:

sudo apt-get install libpng-dev
sudo yum install libpng-devel

For OS X, perhaps this page may help.

VERSION

version 0.001

SYNOPSIS

my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new;
$driver->get('http://www.google.com/404');

my $orig = Selenium::Screenshot->new(
    png => $driver->screenshot,
    metadata => {
        build => 'prod',
        browser => 'firefox',
        'any metadata' => 'you might like'
    }
);

# Alter the page by turning the background blue
$driver->execute_script('document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.backgroundColor = "blue"');

# Take another screenshot
my $blue_file = Selenium::Screenshot->new(
    png => $driver->screenshot,
    metadata => {
        build => 'stage',
        bg => 'blue',
        url => 'http://www.google.com'
    }
)->save;

unless ($orig->compare($blue_file)) {
    my $diff_file = $orig->difference($blue_file);
    print 'The images differ; see ' . $diff_file . ' for details';
}

DESCRIPTION

Selenium::Screenshot is a wrapper class for Image::Compare. It dumbly handles persisting your screenshots to disk and setting up the parameters to Image::Compare to allow you to extract difference images between two states of your app. For example, you might be interested in ensuring that your CSS refactor hasn't negatively impacted other parts of your web app.

ATTRIBUTES

png

REQUIRED - A base64 encoded string representation of a png. For example, the string that the Selenium Webdriver server returns when you invoke the "screenshot" in Selenium::Remote::Driver method.

folder

OPTIONAL - a string where you'd like to save the screenshots on your local machine. It will be run through "abs_path" in Cwd and we'll try to save there.

metadata

OPTIONAL - provide a HASHREF of any additional data you'd like to use in the filename. They'll be appended together in the filename of this screenshot. Rudimentary sanitization is applied to the values of the hashref, but it's not very clever and is probably easily subverted - characters besides letters, numbers, dashes, and periods are regex-substituted by '-' in the filename.

my $screenshot = Selenium::Screenshot->new(
    png => $encoded,
    metadata => {
        url     => 'http://fake.url.com',
        build   => 'random-12347102.238402-build',
        browser => 'firefox'
    }
);

threshold

OPTIONAL - set the threshold at which images should be considered the same. The range is from 0 to 100; for comparison, these two images are N percent different, and these two images are N percent different. The default threshold is 5 out of 100.

METHODS

compare

compare requires one argument: the filename of a PNG to compare against. It must be the exact same size as the PNG you passed in to this instance of Screenshot. It returns a boolean as to whether the images meet your "threshold" for similarity.

difference

difference requires one argument: the filename of a PNG to compare against. Like "compare", the other file must contain a PNG of the exact same size as the PNG you passed into this instance of screenshot. Note that for larger images, this method will take noticeably long to resolve.

The difference image is scaled from white for no change to fuschia for 100% change.

save

Persist your screenshot to disk. Without any arguments, we'll try to build a filename from your metadata if you provided any, and the timestamp if you didn't provide any metadata. You probably want to provide metadata; timestamps aren't very evocative.

filename

Get the filename that we constructed for this screenshot.

SEE ALSO

Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/gempesaw/Selenium-Screenshot/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

Daniel Gempesaw <gempesaw@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Daniel Gempesaw.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.