One of the cool items I didn't mentioned in my announcement post is that we now have the ability to integrate screenshots from a WatiN test into the reports.

Here we have a simple test which searches for MbUnit on Google and then asserts to check that NUnit is mentioned on the page (this fails).

[Test]
public void DemoCaptureOnFailure()
{
    using (Log.BeginSection("Go to Google, enter MbUnit as a search term and click I'm Feeling Lucky"))
    {
        ie.GoTo("http://www.google.com");

        ie.TextField(Find.ByName("q")).TypeText("MbUnit");
        ie.Button(Find.ByName("btnI")).Click();
    }

    // Of course this is ridiculous, we'll be on the MbUnit homepage...
    Assert.IsTrue(ie.ContainsText("NUnit"), "Expected to find NUnit on the page.");
}

Normally, it would be hard to find out what was actually on the webpage at that point to see why the test decided to fail. In the tear down method, there is a check if the test passed or failed, if it failed then it takes a snapshot and includes it in the report.

[TearDown]
public void DisposeBrowser()
{
    if (Context.CurrentContext.Outcome == TestOutcome.Failed)
        Snapshot("Final screen when failure occurred.", LogStreamNames.Failures);

    if (ie != null)
        ie.Dispose();
}

When you view the report, on the test that failed you can see that the screenshot of the webpage has been included.  This will make debugging the error a lot easier, making the tests more useful.

I think this is a great feature, well done to Jeff and the team for implementing this.

Labels: MbUnit, WatiN