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Visual logs
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Visual Logs enables you to automatically capture screenshots for various Appium commands executed in your test session. Using visual logs you can:
- Detect the exact step where the failure occurred.
- Identify any layout or design related issues in your application.
Visual logs are available on the BrowserStack dashboard for 30 days. These logs will be deleted after 30 days from the day they were generated.
Visual logs are disabled by default. To enable visual logs, use the capability as shown below.
If you are using BrowserStack SDK, you can set the following capability within the browserstack.yml file:
| Capability | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
debug |
Generate screenshots for various appium commands in your test |
true, false Default: false
|
BrowserStack SDK is a plug-n-play solution that takes care of all the integration steps for you. Using the BrowserStack SDK is the recommended integration method for your project. To know more, visit the SDK core concepts page.
Use the following code snippet to set the Visual logs capability to true:
| Capability | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
debug |
Generate screenshots for various appium commands in your test |
true, false Default: false
|
Example :
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
HashMap<String, Object> browserstackOptions = new HashMap<String, Object>();
browserstackOptions.put("debug", "true");
var capabilities = {
'bstack:options' : {
"debug" : "true",
}.
}
AppiumOptions capabilities = new AppiumOptions();
Dictionary<string, object> browserstackOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>();
browserstackOptions.Add("debug", "true");
$caps = array(
'bstack:options' => array(
"debug" => "true",
),
)
desired_cap = {
'bstack:options' : {
"debug" : "true",
},
}
capabilities = {
'bstack:options' => {
"debug" => "true",
},
}
| Capability | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
browserstack.debug |
Generate screenshots for various appium commands in your test |
true, false Default: false
|
Example :
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("browserstack.debug", "true");
var capabilities = {
"browserstack.debug" : "true",
}
AppiumOptions capabilities = new AppiumOptions();
capabilities.AddAdditionalCapability("browserstack.debug", "true");
$caps = array(
"browserstack.debug" => "true"
)
desired_cap = {
"browserstack.debug" : "true"
}
caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.new
caps["browserstack.debug"] = "true"
Access visual logs from the dashboard:
The visual logs can be accessed from the test sessions details page on the App Automate Dashboard.
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