Native Windows Recorder in Katalon Studio
The Native Windows Recorder gives you a seamless recording experience that is similar to Web Recorder.
Starting in version 10.4.0, Desktop app testing is available again with a new custom driver based on the FlaUI library (no installation required). For full details on feature availability and version support, see the Katalon Studio Release Notes: Version 10.x.
Requirements​
- This feature is supported on Windows only
- You have an active Katalon Studio Enterprise license
Native Windows Recorder features coordinate-based recording​
Native Windows Recorder now features coordinate-based recording. This feature allows KS to record an element's relative coordinates to its selector, greatly enhance clicking precision.
For example, your test involves clicking on the red X button to close a tab in Notepad. Katalon Recorder records the button's offsets relative to its top-left corner, and saves them as a set of (X, Y) parameters in clickElementOffset. With this coordinate pair, Katalon Recorder reproduces your click exactly where you originally did, instead of defaulting to the button's center.
The click and rightClick actions are recorded as clickElementOffset and rightClickElementOffset actions respectively. See more details on these keywords:
Steps to record with Native Windows Recorder​
- Right-click on the Windows Recorder icon and select Native Windows Recorder to open the Native Windows Recorder windows.
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The Native Windows Recorder dialog box appears. Specify the Application File directory.
To start a Universal Windows Platform application, the application's execute file should be:
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ApplicationID if your app is published on Microsoft store
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PackageFamilyName!Application ID if your app is still in development.
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- Click Start to deploy the application in testing mode.
- In this mode, when you hover over an element of the app, Katalon Studio highlights the identified object with a red rectangle. To record, simply interact with objects as you would normally do.
On the right-side box, you can see two tabs: Recorded Actions and Captured Objects.
When you perform an action, it is recorded in the Recorded Actions tab. The list of available actions is the same as Katalon Studio's built-in keywords. You can edit it to add any action, call another test case, and/or use Custom Keywords.
In Captured Objects tab next to Recorded Actions, you can view all elements captured during the recording session, and click on each object for edits. You can customize the locator of a captured object by modifying it in the Locator tab of Object Properties. The captured objects’ locators are their absolute XPaths.
