You can use the manual test script recorder in the manual
test editor to complete a set of actions and capture them as steps
in a manual test script. This approach saves your team time and eliminates
user errors from manually writing manual test script steps. You can
also save screen captures automatically or do exploratory testing.
Before you begin
To use the manual test script recorder in the manual test
editor, you must meet the following prerequisites:
About this task
You can use the manual test script recorder to create a set
of steps in a new manual test script or to add more steps to a saved
manual test script. After you create or modify a manual test script
with the recorder, you run it like any other manual test script.
Procedure
- Start the process to create or modify a test script with
the recorder by doing any one of these steps:
- Create a manual test script.
- Open a manual test script.
- Open the Test Case design section of a test case.
- Open the Test Scripts section of a test case.
- Open the Record Manual Script window
in one of these ways:
- In a new manual test script or in the Test Case Design or
Test Scripts section of a test case, click the Record Manual
Script () icon.
- In an existing manual test script, select a step where you
can add new steps. Click the menu arrow in the step, and select Insert
New Step(s) Above via Recording or Insert New
Step(s) Below via Recording.
Note: If you started the recording from the Test Case Design
or Test Scripts section of a test case, the Record Manual Script dialog
box includes fields for the name and description of the new manual
test script.
- Select an Adapter. The
list includes only Rational Functional Tester adapters
that are enabled for manual test script recording. If none is listed,
no Rational Functional Tester adapters
are configured. Contact an administrator.
- Specify where to store the Images that
are captured during the recording process. Your selection is stored
and used as the default value for the next recording. Select one of
these options:
- Expected Result column (default)
- Description column
- Attachment
- No Image
- If you choose to store images in the Description or Expected
Results column, click Show As to specify whether
to display the images as thumbnails, full-size images, or as links
to separate image files. Your selection is stored and used as the
default value for the next recording.
- Click OK to start recording. If you are using the preference to automatically minimize
the browser window, then the Rational Quality Manager user
interface is minimized, and you see a Rational Functional Tester recording
toolbar on the desktop.
Note: If
you use Firefox version 7 or later, the browser does not automatically
minimize when you start the recording, even if you selected the user
preference to minimize the browser. You must manually minimize the
browser window.
- Complete the actions to record as manual test script steps. For example, if the first step in the manual test script
is to open the application under test, then you open the application
on your computer. For information about the icons that
are displayed on the Rational Functional Tester recording
toolbar, see the Recording toolbar.
- When you finish capturing the test script actions, click Stop on
the recording toolbar. The manual test script shows the
steps that the recorder captured.
Tip: If your browser
does not correctly perform the window focus request from Rational Quality Manager,
restore the window manually. if Rational Quality Manager is
on the machine that is running the recorder, you can disable the user
preference to minimize the browser window and always manually minimize
or restore when you record.
- Review the new manual test script steps and update the
steps as needed, and click Save.
What to do next
Associate the manual test script with a test case, test case
execution record, or test suite execution record, and run it.