You use the Manual Tester Text Editor to create and edit content for your manual test script.
You use the Text Editor to:
Author your manual test scripts. The Text Editor is a rich text editor with font, font size, font color, bold, italic, and underline controls. You can cut, copy, and paste text within the text editor. When authoring a script, you can also insert images.
Modify Statement Types. In the Text Editor, you can change a statement to another type. Right-click the statement you want to change and click Statement Type > Set as Step, Statement Type > Set as Verification Point, Statement Type > Set as Reporting Point, or Statement Type > Set as Group. See About Manual Tester Scripts and Statements for more information.
Delete Statements. You can delete a statement or group of statements by right-clicking the statement and clicking Delete. Manual Tester displays a message reminding you that when you delete a group you delete all the statements in the group. Click Yes to delete the group or click No to cancel the deletion. You can disable the prompt by selecting Don't ask me again on the message box. You can also disable the message on the Main Preferences page.
Save Content for Reuse. You right-click the statement you want to use in other manual test scripts and select Add to Reuse.
Paste Reusable Statements. To create a reusable statement using copy and paste, press Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+R to paste a reference copy. When you paste the statement, Manual Tester displays a message asking if you want to add the pasted item to your list of reusable statements. Click Yes to save the statement for reuse. Manual Tester adds the statement to the Reuse view. If you click No, Manual Tester pastes the referenced statement, but does not add it to the Reuse view.
Edit Reusable Statements. You can easily locate the script where the reusable statements were originally authored by right-clicking the statements in the Text Editor and clicking Open Script.
Search for and replace text. You can find specific text in your manual test script. If necessary, you can selectively replace the text with alternate text.
View test results in the log. In the Manual Tester menu, click File > Open. If necessary, navigate to the directory where you saved the execution file. In the Files of type field, select *.execution. Select the log file you want to view and click Open. Manual Tester displays the log in the Text Editor.
You can open several files in the Text Editor at one time. Tabs at the top of the Text Editor display the names of the open files. Click a tab to move to a file.
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Step |
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Verification point |
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Reporting point |
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Group Folder |
To open: Manual Tester displays the Text Editor by default when it starts up.