Screenshots and Videos

What you'll learn

• How Cypress captures screenshots of test failures automatically
• How to manually capture your own screenshot
• How Cypress can record a video of the entire run
• Some options of what to do with screenshot and video artifacts

Screenshots

To take a manual screenshot you can use the cy.screenshot() command

Additionally, Cypress will automatically capture screenshots when a failure happens during cypress run. Screenshots on failure are not automatically taken during cypress open

Videos

Video recording is disabled by default, but can be turned on by setting video to true from within your configuration

If enabled, Cypress records a video for each spec file when running tests during cypress run. Videos are not recorded during cypress open.

import { defineConfig } from 'cypress'

export default defineConfig({
  video: true,
})