What Are Advantages and Weaknesses of a Capture/Playback Tool?

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What Are Advantages and Weaknesses of a
Capture/Playback Tool?

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What Are Advantages and Weaknesses of a
Capture/Playback Tool?
There are many various automated testing programs
meant for different testing activities on the
market.
Capture/playback tools are among the most
commonly applied during mobile application
testing, desktop testing or web site testing.
They are often used during functional testing.
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What Are Advantages and Weaknesses of a
Capture/Playback Tool?

• Capture/playback mechanism notes every keystroke
  and mouse motion of a tester working with the
  software.

On the basis of these records the instrument
creates code that can reproduce the testers
actions. Testing programs written in such way can
be useful for some testing activities. But in
most cases scripts written by the instruments
must be altered in order to become appropriate
for the project.
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What Are Advantages and Weaknesses of a
Capture/Playback Tool?
Testing Programs Created by a Capture/Playback
Instrument Have Certain Weaknesses
often they are difficult to maintain

• often they are not reusable

they use data entered by a tester, such data may
be difficult to code and hard to change if needed.
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What Are Advantages and Weaknesses of a
Capture/Playback Tool?
A software testing company does not recommend to
rely only on this method performing web site
testing desktop testing or mobile testing.
Automation of many tests requires other
approaches.
It is known that testing efforts are most
effective if black-box testing, gray-box testing
and white-box testing are combined. It is
impossible to automate all the tests applying
only capture/playback tool. Besides some tests it
is impossible to automate and they must be
executed by hand.
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