Sunday, March 23, 2014

Web application testing tool for screen capture


Windows Problem Steps Recorder a very useful tool for web application testing, if you need series of screen shots taken with recorded steps than this is the one you are looking for.

Key features:

  1. Record your each and every step
  2. Take screen shot of every step taken
  3. You can pause and resume your recording any moment
  4. You can add comment in your steps
  5. 3 different type review system is available thus gives a nice report to understand
Before you start you must tune the setting according to your need. Go to Information drop down menu. Select Settings from following menu,


From Settings set following things according to your need,
  • Path to save your recorded file
  • Enable/ Disable screenshots
  • Number of maximum screen shots allow to take while recording steps

View your recorded steps. It will store as a .zip file when application will save it. Unzip it and it will open in IE with 3 Review options,
  1. Review the recorded problem steps
  2. Review the recorded problem steps as a slide show
  3. Review the additional details

It is a real time savor. Use it, feel free to drop comment if you are facing some problem to use it. I use it daily and it benefits me a lot, specially for test report. It is one of the nice and free tool available around us.