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Replaying a script via Remote Control

Defect Management » Investigating defects » Common areas of the Investigate Screen » Remote Control » Replaying a script via Remote Control

Check the Setup Remember to utilise the Remote Control functionality the following steps must be in place: You must be able to logon to a bot machine or have a bot setup on your local machine The bot must be active The playback enhancements must be active If you…

Remote Control

Defect Management » Investigating defects » Common areas of the Investigate Screen » Remote Control

Remote Control Overview Testimony provides the ability to playback one script on its own to allow further investigation of a failure or testing a fix. Remote Control offers the ability to go through each step and interact or change details on the SAP screen as you go.…

Troubleshooting Remote Control

Defect Management » Investigating defects » Common areas of the Investigate Screen » Remote Control » Troubleshooting Remote Control

The remote control screen has disapeared If the remote control screen seems to have disappeaered use the Alt and Tab buttons together to search for the SAP screen with “Replay dialog script”. Note that you won’t find this screen by just clicing on…

Header Section

Defect Management » Investigating defects » Common areas of the Investigate Screen » Header Section

The header of the Investigate Screen displays a lot of useful information on the script, as follows. Queue Information At the top of the investigate screen you can see the execution queue ID and the item ID within that queue (within the window title). The format…

Introduction

Welcome to the Testimony Testers’ Guide. This guide details the defect management aspect of Testimony, giving you hints, tips and best practices for analysing the results of a Testimony playback. It is aimed at testers as well as technical and functional experts…

Front-end Actions

Defect Management » Investigating defects » Linkage Type Screens » Front-end Actions

Front-end actions are used to do service virtualization of the bots during the playback. An example of a front-end action linkage displayed in the new investigate screen is shown below: Linkage Type - Front-end Action Key information on the front-end action…

Script Steps

Defect Management » Investigating defects » Common areas of the Investigate Screen » Script Steps

This area shows the individual steps that made up the test script. The icon for displaying whether a script step passed or failed is now the standard “LED” icon. Green – means that the step executed and passed Red – means that the step…

Example 11: Drag & Drop

Defect Management » Types of defects and how to identify them » Defects caused by functionality not supported by Testimony » Example 11: Drag & Drop

The following defect has been raised because the playback did not see a message that was shown in the recording. Looking at the Investigate Screen, we can see that in the recording we captured a “Work item was created” message, whereas we didn’t see a message…

Glossary

Bot The bot is an executable program that resides on a windows machine (normally a virtual machine). During playback the bot machines log on as the recorded users and execute the recorded transactions. The requirements for bot setup can be found here. Central…

Example 5: Double-clicking on a list item calls up a different document

Defect Management » Types of defects and how to identify them » Defects arising from data issues » Example 5: Double-clicking on a list item calls up a different document

This defect has been raised because a different screen was shown in the playback than was seen in the recording. Looking at the Investigate Screen, we can see that instead of going to a “Decision step in workflow” screen, we went to a “Process PO Invoices”…

Status: Cancelled

Review Playback Results » Script statuses and execution results » Status: Cancelled

Sometimes during a playback, Testimony will decide that a script cannot or should not be executed. These are shown with a Status of Cancelled and a Result of No result. There are various reasons why Testimony might decide to cancel a script. These are discussed…