Recording a Visual Test From the Start Screen

During recording, everything you do, except your interaction with Silk Test Workbench, is recorded until you stop the session. After you have finished recording, you can modify the visual test to add and remove steps.

Optional: To be able to update recorded controls from the screen preview, when testing against a web application, enable the capturing of browser controls before recording a visual test. For additional information, see Setting Record Output Options.
Note: Enabling control capture during the recording of web applications might decrease the performance of your visual tests. Micro Focus recommends disabling control captures.
Click Record New Visual Test on the Start Screen. The Select Application dialog box opens.
If you have not set an application configuration for the current project, select the tab that corresponds to the type of application that you are testing:
- If you are testing a standard application that does not run in a browser, select the Windows tab.
- If you are testing a web application or a mobile web application, select the Web tab.
- If you are testing a native mobile application, select the Mobile tab.
To test a standard application, if you have not set an application configuration for the current project, select the application from the list.
To test a web application or a mobile web application, select one of the installed browsers or mobile browsers from the list.
1. Specify the web page to open in the Enter URL to navigate text box. If an instance of the selected browser is already running, you can click Use URL from running browser to record against the URL currently displayed in the running browser instance.
2. Optional: If you want to test a web application on a desktop browser with a predefined browser size, select the browser size from the Browser size list.
  For example, to test a web application on Apple Safari and in a browser window which is as big as the screen of the Apple iPhone 7, select Apple iPhone 7 from the list.
3. Optional: Select an Orientation for the browser window.
4. Optional: Click Edit Browser Sizes to specify a new browser size and to select which browser sizes should be shown in the Browser size list.
To test a native mobile application (app):
1. Select the mobile device, on which you want to test the app, from the list.
2. Click Browse to select the app file or enter the full path to the app file into the Mobile app file text field. Silk Test Workbench supports HTTP and UNC formats for the path. Silk Test Workbench installs the app on the mobile device or emulator.
Click OK.
Silk Test Workbench minimizes and the application and the Recording window opens.
Record the actions that you want to test. During recording the Silk Test Workbench icon on the task bar flashes. For information about the actions available during recording, see Actions Available During Recording.
If you are recording against a web application on one of the supported browsers, and you want to interact with a control that you cannot access directly in the UI, for example because the control is hidden by another control, click Toggle Hierarchy View in the Recording window and select the control from the control hierarchy tree. This functionality is available if you are testing against one of the following browsers:
- Microsoft Edge.
- Apple Safari.
- Mozilla Firefox 41 or later.
- Google Chrome 50 or later.
- A mobile browser.
Stop recording by pressing Alt+F10, clicking Stop in the Recording window, or clicking the Silk Test Workbench taskbar icon.
The Recording Complete dialog box opens. If the Do not show this message again check box is checked in the Recording Complete dialog box, this dialog box does not appear after recording is stopped. In this case, the visual test displays in the Test Steps pane.
Perform one of the following steps:
- Click Playback to close the Recording Complete dialog box and save the test script.
  The Playback dialog box appears, which allows you to specify result information and playback the test.
- Click Go To Visual test to open the visual test in the Test Steps pane of the Visual Navigator.
- Click Save to save the visual test and exit the Recording Complete dialog box.
  The visual test appears in the Test Steps pane of the Visual Navigator.
When the recorded test displays in the Visual Navigator, you can play it back at any time.