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Record user actions into manual steps with screenshots and page performance timings
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**What's new**
-> Added keyboard shortcut to capture current state - Default is Ctrl+Shift+1 to snap the screen but Chrome let's you manages these shortcuts here: chrome://extensions/shortcuts
-> Manifest v3 - behind the scenes google extension stuff
-> Few other bugs squashed
-> Export steps now write annotations too
Key Features:
- Automatically record detailed user actions and screenshots from manual interaction with web pages.
- Captures events, object identifiers, URLs, titles, detailed page timings and screenshots.
- Once ready, view the detailed results, press ctrl+s and create a single, detailed flat file of test evidence of every action undertaken in the browser.
- Annotate your steps to add further detail and track questions, bugs or ideas
Why?
As a tester, I'm forever capturing test evidence for steps that are undertaken. This is especially tricky when doing exploratory testing and trying to recreate any issues.
This extension is the solution to creating highly detailed test evidence files with no effort.
Do your test, save the results web page and upload it to whichever management tool is used.
Use cases:
** Manual test execution evidence capture
** Exploratory test tracking
** SME/Business process/data capture - they do it, you can harvest their knowledge
** Story-booking the execution of automation (have the extension turned on while automation runs)
** Encourage non-testers to capture the best level of detail possible
Instructions:
1. Install the extension
2. Click the extension and open the popup (strongly recommend pinning the extension!)
3. Click the slider to turn on recording - the icon adds a red dot.
4. Create a new tab and do your test actions!
5. At any point, open the extension and press "Peek Steps" to see a subset of has been recorded.
6. For any checkpoints, open the popup and press "Capture Current State" to snap a pic of the application or press Ctrl+Shift+1 (shortcut changeable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts). This is especially useful for the final state of the application.
7. When complete, click the slider to stop recording (you can turn it on and off as many time as required) and click "Open Detailed Results Tab". On the detailed results tag you can annotate your steps. Type #bug, #question or #idea to add colour to field.
8. Review the steps, press ctrl+s and save the detailed results web page Or press ctrl+p to print to a PDF
9. Ready for the next test? - Open the popup and press Clear Steps and start recording again!
*The extension should not record password entries by filtering element 'type=password' - but please validate result files before saving.
Accessibility – we have used the Chrome Lighthouse accessibility tool to assess this extension and have achieved a score of 100/100. We are always considering accessibility as part of our digital experience. If you have any accessibility concerns please contact us via https://shiftleft.today/accessibility-statement
Latest reviews
- (2023-01-18) Staging Site: Load time is not capturing correctly. It is capturing just previous step Load time in the Next event. Please look into this.
- (2022-07-25) Paul Michael Madrona Ticar: Savior!!!, just looking for a shortcut key for Capture Current State, since some interactions won't be captured automatically.
- (2021-02-03) John Alexander: Simple to install, powerful in what it achieves. I especially like the screenshot feature :)
- (2021-01-25) David Rigler: This is a powerful addition to Chrome that helps testers, business analysts and process capture in general.
Latest issues
- (2024-01-22, v:0.45.28) C. Todd: Reorder of steps
It would be nice if there was way to reorder the steps. Upon reviewing a document and noticing a step was missed (this can happen when the application pops up a window). CSR provides a way to manually add a screen shot (ctrl+shift+1), but there is no way to then move this step to its proper location. - (2024-01-22, v:0.45.28) C. Todd: PDF Printing
If the user comments exceed the size of the entry field (a scroll bar appears). All the comments are not printed in the resulting PDF file. The user must manually expand these boxes, to show all data, prior to printing. - (2024-01-22, v:0.45.28) C. Todd: User Comments missing
When reviewing a documents details (when being created). You have the option to save the file as HTML. This option is not saving the user entered comments consistently. I have had it same none of the comments and sometimes it will save random steps (1-5 of 12). - (2023-06-29, v:0.45.28) sky test: Screenshot Copy
Is there any short cut key to use to Copy and paste the Screenshots recorded. If not.. is there any chance to download just the whole file of just Screenshots? - (2022-11-12, v:0.45.27) Mark Boles: Combining Data
Hey there... this is maybe a selfish question but this tool would be 100% what I'm looking for if I could take the Supporting Identifiers part and COMBINE it with the Actions column... It would cutdown on column width constraints where I'm using this data, and right now I'm basically just yanking it all out, combining manually, and then killing the extra column... Thoughts?