Playing a test

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While a test is played back, the entire application is made inaccessible to prevent you from influencing the test run by accidently navigating away or changing a value, except when user input is prompted. User input is prompted when:

The test execution has ended.

A breakpoint is encountered. Breakpoints are set by checking checkboxes on the left-hand side of the Edit test dialog. Breakpoints are not heeded when a test is played in Run mode (see below).

An error is raised.

In Run mode only (see below), you can pause or stop a test while it is executing.

To play a test:

1.Select the test in the Current test dropdown list box in the middle of the Web Benchmark control.
2.You are now ready to play the selected test in the playback mode of your choice. There are 3 playback modes in Web Benchmark:
collapsePlay Test playback mode
collapsePlay Step playback mode
collapseProfiler playback mode

 

See also

The Web Benchmark control