Recorder
The Record and Playback feature of a tool is useful to quickly understand the scripting it supports or to find out how it controls your application.
The Recorder allows you to record user interactions with the application you are testing and generates the script which can then be played back. It is not advisable to build your entire test suite just by recording the user interactions.
Potential fallouts are :
- Test data and object locators are hard coded in the script.
- There is limited opportunity for reuse resulting in greater duplication of code
However using the Recorder does help in getting started with your test suite quickly.
How is the Twist Recorder different?
You can start using the Twist Recorder at any point in your scenario. The recorder plays back all the previous steps and it will bring the application to the state where you want to start recording your actions.
We encourage users to record small units of functionality. These could then be reused in other scenarios by reusing the class that contains the generated scripts.
This is why you do not see a recorder button anywhere in Twist IDE other than in quick-fix of a step.