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About Qualitia Automation Studio Recorder

Qualitia Automation Studio Recorder automates and simplifies the process of creating test cases. It lets you record test cases for web or mobile applications, or a combination of both. The recorder captures the actions that you perform on the application as steps and stores them as objects, along with the associated actions and parameters.

You can access the Qualitia Automation Studio Recorder from the Test Case Editor screen. You can record the steps for an existing test case or for a new test case.

Qualitia Recorder does not support all the actions in this release. Before you start using the recorder, see the list of supported actions by the recorder here: Actions Supported in Qualitia Automation Studio Recorder.

Recording a Test Case for a Web Application

You can record a web application using Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. 

Before you start recording an SFDC application, refer to the information in Considerations for Recording an SFDC Application.


To record a test case for a web application:

  1. Create a new scenario or select an existing scenario that has the test case for which you want to record the steps. For instructions on how to create a scenario, see ​Creating a Scenario.

  2. Create a new empty test case or select an existing test case for which you want to record the steps.
    For instructions on how to create a test case, see ​Adding a Test Case Manually.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • To create a new test case, click the Web Recording button on the Test Case Editor screen.

    • To add new steps to an existing test case or a new test case that already has some steps, do the following:

      • To add the new steps after the last step, click the Start Web Recording button ()  on the Test Case Edition Button panel.

      • To add the new steps after a specific step, select the step, right-click and select Start Recording on Web.
        Note: If you start recording on a step that does not have an object and an action, or does not have an object and the action is set to NoOps, the recorder overrides the selected step with the recorded steps.

  4. Do the following in the order listed:

    1. Select the browser that you want to use for recording.
      Note: If you have selected Internet Explorer to record any web application for the first time, Qualitia Automation Web recorder prompts you to install the IE recorder. For instructions on how to install the IE recorder, refer to Installing the IE Recorder.
    2. Enter the URL of the web application that you want to test, in the Website URL text box.
    3. Click Start Recording.
      The recorder controls toolbar appears on the application.
  5. Start performing the actions that you want to record. Each action that you perform is recorded as a step along with the associated objects, actions, and parameters. For more information, refer to Web Actions.

  6. (Optional) Click the Expand icon () on the recorder controls toolbar to see the object actions that you can enable for recording. Enabling the actions for recording let you choose the actions associated with the objects when you click on them while recording.

  7. Select one of the following actions that you want to enable for recording.

    For Internet Explorer, the recorder controls toolbar displays the icons differently and does not provide the options to record the Browser actions.


Action

Description

Lets you record the Verify actions for objects.

Lets you record the Wait actions for the objects.

Lets you record the Mouseover action for the objects.

Lets you record the Keyboard actions.

Note: You can enter values for the objects that have WebEdit class, such as text boxes, even if this option is disabled.    

Lets you record the following Browser actions.

  • Navigate Back (): Click to navigate to the previous page of the application under test.
  • Navigate Forward (): Click to navigate to the next page of the application under test.
  • Refresh (): Click to refresh the application under test.
  • Open URL ():  Click to switch to another application under test. Enter the URL of the application you want to switch to in the Enter Web URL text box, and then click the Arrow button next to it.

    After entering the URL, do not hit Enter on your keyboard to switch to another application.


  • Delete Cookies: (): Click to delete cookies of the application under test.

Lets you customize the sequence of locator types for recording the web objects.

Select a locator type and use move up or move down arrow buttons to change the sequence.

The default sequence of the locator types for a native application is as follows:

  • Link

  • Name

  • ID

  • XPath

  • CSS

    Note:

    The QAS recorder supports only the CSS locator type to record the Shadow DOM objects for web and SFDC applications.

  1. Click Pause to pause the recording at any point of time.

  2. Click Stop Recording to finish recording the test case. All the steps that you performed are stored as steps under a single task that you selected.

You can now use the Test Case Editor to group the steps under separate tasks. Simply select the test case step you want to convert to Task, right-click and select Add New Task, enter a name and description and then click OK.

Considerations for Recording an SFDC Application

Recording an SFDC application is mostly similar to recording a web application. There are minor differences between these two types of recordings, which are as follows:

  • Qualitia recommends that you record test cases for SFDC applications using an SFDC project only as an SFDC project enables you to add the pre-defined SFDC Actions and SFDC specific objects.
  • You must record an SFDC application using Firefox or Google Chrome only.
  • QAS SFDC Application recorder uses the locator types in the following sequence, which cannot be customized:
    • SFDC:Label
    • XPath
  • Currently, SFDC projects do not support Wait Actions for SFDC objects. Hence, the Wait Action button in the Recording Toolbar does not allow you to add the Wait Actions for SFDC Objects.
  • You can also record the associated web and mobile applications in an SFDC project.
  • The QAS Recorder identifies the web objects and adds them automatically in the following cases:
    • Recording certain SFDC components that are not yet defined in the rules set for identifying SFDC objects.
    • Recording a customized SFDC page that uses web objects.
    • Recording an associated web application.

Recording a Test Case for a Mobile Application

Qualitia Mobile Recorder enables you to record test cases on a mobile application. It supports Android and iOS platforms and works with most of the popular mobile brands. You can record a mobile application in an environment that can be a virtual device (Emulator or Simulator), or a real device.

Before you begin recording a test case, ensure that you have to:

To record a test case for a mobile application:

  1. Create a new scenario or select an existing scenario that has the test case for which you want to record the steps. For instructions on how to create a scenario, see Creating a Scenario.

  2. Create a new empty test case or select an existing test case for which you want to record the steps.
    For instructions on how to create a test case, see Creating a Test Case Manually.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • To create a new test case, click the Start Mobile Recording button on the Test Case Editor screen.

    • To add new steps to an existing test case or a new test case that already has some steps, do the following:

      • To add the new steps after the last step, click the Record button on the Test Case Edition Button panel.

      • To add the new steps after a specific step, select the step, right-click and select Start Recording on Mobile.
        Note: If you start recording on a step that does not have an object and an action, or does not have an object and the action is set to NoOps, the recorder overrides the selected step with the recorded steps.

  4. Do the following in the order listed:

    1. Click the Mobile Recorder tab.

    2. Select the browser that you want to use for recording.

    3. Click Start Recording.
      The Mobile Recording Platform opens in the selected browser.


  1. Click CONNECT to connect to the appropriate environment.

  2. Do one of the following:

    To launch a native/ hybrid application

    Do one of the following:

    • To select an application that is already installed, from the Select an application drop-down list, select the appropriate application, and then click the Arrow button.

    • To install a new application, under Install New, enter the path of the mobile application package, and then click Install. After installing the application, from the Select an application drop-down list, select the application, and then click the Arrow button.

    To launch a web view application

    Click the Provide Web URL button, enter the mobile application URL, and then click the Arrow button.

    The recorder controls toolbar appears on the screen.

    1. Start performing the actions that you want to record. Each action that you perform is recorded as a step along with the associated objects, actions, and parameters. For more information, refer to Mobile Actions.
      Note: While recording a mobile web application, Qualitia recommends to keep the size of the browser as 100%. If you Zoom In or Zoom Out the browser, the UI may distort, which makes it difficult to identify the objects.

    2. Click the Click the Expand icon () icon on the recorder controls toolbar to see the object actions that you can enable for recording.

      Enabling the actions for recording let you choose the actions associated with the objects when you click on them while testing. Select one of the following actions that you want to enable for recording.

      Recording Panel ButtonDescription

      Lets you record verify actions for an object.

      Lets you record wait actions for an object.

      Lets you enter texts in text boxes.

      Lets you remove texts from text boxes.

      Lets you customize the sequence of locator types for recording the mobile objects.

      Select a locator type and use move up or move down arrow buttons to change the sequence.

      The default sequence of the locator types is as follows:

      • UiAutomator

      • ID

      • Accessibility ID

      • Class

      • XPath

      The default sequence of the locator types for a mobile web application is as follows:

      • Link

      • Name

      • ID

      • XPath

      • CSS


      1. Click Pause to pause the recording at any point of time.

      2. Click Stop to finish recording the test case.

      You can now use the Test Case Editor to group the steps under separate tasks. Simply select the test case step you want to convert to Task, right-click and select Add New Task, enter a name and description and then click OK.

      Recording a Mixed Test Case for Web and Mobile Application

      You can record a single test case to capture steps on both mobile and web applications. For example, to log in to a banking web application, you need an OTP that you receive on your mobile application.

      You can start recording on an application type, pause the recording, and then switch to continue recording on another application type.

      A combination of mobile web application and mobile native or hybrid application is not supported.

      To record a mixed test case for web and mobile application:

      1. You can start recording on a web or a mobile application:

        1. To start recording on a web application, refer to ​Recording a Test Case for a Web Application.

        2. To start recording on a mobile application, refer to ​Recording a Test Case for a Mobile Application.

      2. To switch to another application type, from the Test Case Editor screen, select a step from where you want to record, right-click and then select Start or Continue Recording from the appropriate application type.
        The subsequent steps are added from that step.

      3. Click Save to save the recorded steps.
        W denotes that the steps are recorded on a web application and M denotes that the steps are recorded on a mobile application.

      4. Click Stop to finish recording the test case.

      You can now use the Test Case Editor to group the steps under separate tasks. Simply select the steps that you want to add to a new group, right-click and select Add New Task, enter a name and description and then click OK. A task too can be formed containing steps related to web and mobile application testing.







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