About Pausing and Resuming Manual Test Scripts

When running your manual test script, you can pause, return to the Manual Tester window, and resume running the script at a later time.

To pause a manual test script, in the execution viewer menu click Run > Pause/Return to Script.

Manual Tester displays the Save As dialog box, which you can use to specify the name you want to use for the paused test log. Manual Tester automatically appends an .rmtplog extension to the name to indicate it is a paused test log.

The paused test log is listed in the Recent Files view under Test Logs (paused).

To resume the paused script, right-click the paused test log in the Recent Files view and select Resume Script. You can also resume the script from the Manual Tester menu by clicking Run > Resume Script. Manual Tester displays the Open dialog box, which you use to navigate to the paused test log for the script you want to resume. The script resumes at the point where it was paused.

You can open the paused test log for viewing by right-clicking the name of the log in the Recent Files view and selecting Open. The paused test log lists only statements that have results and steps that are checked off.

You can pause and resume as many times as you want. When you save the results of a paused script, Manual Tester removes the paused test log from the Recent Files view.

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Parent topic: Running Manual Test Scripts

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