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Define the sequence of the steps in a test case that resemble the flow of a test scenario.

You need to add or edit some or all the steps manually for a test case in the following situations such as:

• To add certain actions that are not supported by Qualitia Automation Recorder.

• To create a test case to automate testing on desktop applications.

• To add certain General Web Actions and Mobile Actions.

• To define conditional statements at the appropriate places.

• To add custom actions at the appropriate places.

Before you start adding or editing steps manually, ensure that all the objects of the application under test are added in the Object Repository. For more information, refer to Working with Objects.

To add or edit a test case manually:

1. From the Expand Menu, click Develop.

2. On the Test Case Editor screen, from the left pane, open an existing scenario or create a scenario. For more details, refer to Working with Scenarios.

3. You can edit or add a test case of the selected scenario:

   1. To edit a test case

      • Select a test case
        The Test Case Editor screen opens.

   2. To add a test case

      1. On the right pane, click the New Test Case button().

      2. Enter a Test Case Name, Description, Manual TC ID, and File Name.

      3. Click OK.
         The Test Case Editor screen opens.

4. (Optional) To add a task from the first step, click Create Task. Enter a name and description for the task, and then click OK.
   To add steps for the added task, refer to step 4.

5. To add an independent step or a task step

   1. Click the Add Test Case Step button () to add a blank step in the Test Case Editor screen.

   2. To add an object, double-click the Object cell to open the Object Repository hierarchy, and then select an object. For more information on objects, refer to Working with Objects.
      Note: You can right-click the object and select Edit Object to edit its properties. For more information, refer to Editing an Object.
      Some Generic Actions do not require an object such as OpenURL, Maximize Browser, and so on.

   3. Double-click the Actioncell and click the arrow button to select an Action.

      Note: As per the selected object, only the relevant actions are displayed. For more information, refer to Qualitia Actions.
      As per the selected action, the associated parameters in a single or multiple parameter cells are automatically displayed.

   4. Enter the relevant values for the parameters. For more information, refer to Quailtia Actions.
      Similarly, you can add more steps that you want to add to the test case.

6. To add a task using the steps that you have defined

   1. Select the steps, Press Ctrl and select the other steps that you want to add to the task, right-click and then select Add New Task.

   2. Enter a name and description for the task, and then click OK.
      To add steps to thetask, refer to step 4.

7. To import an existing task, select a step from where you want to insert the task, click the Import Task button() from the Test Case Editor screen.
   To edit the steps for the imported task, refer to step 4.

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   If you edit the steps of the imported task, ensure that there is no impact on other test cases that are using the same task.

   
   

8. To move a task or step to its appropriate place, select the task or step, and then click the Move Up button () or the Move Down button ().

9. After adding or editing all the tasks and steps, click the Save button () to save the test case.

You can now click the Run button () to dry run the test case to know whether expected results are achieved. For more information, refer to Dry Run a Test Case.

Note: If a task step is highlighted with a red vertical line,  as shown in the following figure:

This indicates that the task is imported from another project, and later on the task is updated as per its corresponding task present in the import project.
The task step is highlighted only when it contains the parameters where you need to either add test data or simply add required data as per the test case flow, and click the Save button () .

To find all the task steps that are updated, select a step in the test case editor screen, click the Next button (Image RemovedImage Added) and Previous button (Image RemovedImage Added). The Test Case Editor screen highlight the steps that contains the error objects and the updated task steps.