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Katalon Studio supports Keywords-Driven testing, where test cases consist of keywords that represent actions of users on the AUT (Applications Under Test). It allows users with less experience in programming to quickly generate automation tests. The below tutorial will give you step-by-step instructions to create an automation test case in manual mode. We will discuss the below topics in this tutorial:

  • Steps to create a test case in Manual Mode
  • Recent Keywords
  • Recent Objects and Object Folders

Given a sample test case with the steps as following:

  • Firstly, open the browser.
  • Secondly, navigate to a website.
  • Thirdly, click on certain control.
  • Fourthly, validate if the control exists on the page.
  • Finally, close the browser.

Subsequently, follow these steps to automate the above test scenario in Manual view:

  1. First, select File > New > Test Case from the main menu. After that, the New Test Case dialog will display. Consequently, provide the name for the new test case. Finally, click the OK button.

Create test case using manual mode

  1. Secondly, once we create a new test case, it is opened in the Manual view. Additionally, this view allows users to create automation tests easily with little programming skills required.

Katalon Studio Manual Mode

  1. Thirdly, select Add > Web UI Keyword  from the command toolbar.

Recent keywords allow users to quickly add any of the last ten currently used keywords in the Item list.

Web UI Keyword Katalon Studio

  1. Fourthly, select the Open Browser (https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-open-browser.html). This keyword will open a browser and navigate to the specified URL if provided. (selected keywords will have their description displayed along for reference).

Open Browser Keyword Katalon Studio

  1. Fifthly, add the Navigate To Url (https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-navigate-to-url.html ). Subsequently, this keyword will navigate to a specified URL. After that, double click on the Input cell to provide additional data (parameters) for the keyword.

Provide additional data

  1. Sixthly, the Input dialog is displayed.

Input dialog Katalon Studio

Where:

Field Description
No It tells the number of the parameter for the selected keyword.
Param Name The name of the parameter.
Param Type The indicated data type for the parameter (e.g., String, Variable, or Test Data Value)
Value It tells the input value for this parameter.The input value can vary based on Value Type. Refer to Value Types in Katalon (https://docs.katalon.com/display/KD/Value+Types) for more details.

For now, enter the URL of Katalon demo AUT (http://demoaut.katalon.com) into the Value column then click OK.

  1. Seventhly, add the Click (https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-click.html). This keyword represents the click action on a given object. You need to provide the object for this keyword, though. Consequently, double click on the Object  cell to open the Test Object Input  dialog.

Click keyword Katalon Studio

  1. After that, all captured objects in Object Repository are displayed in the Test Object Input dialog (Refer to Spy Object - https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/spy-mobile-utility.html  Consequently, for details regarding how to capture objects). Select your object, then click, OK.

Test Object Input Dialog

  1. Ninthly, add the Verify Element Present (https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-verify-element-present.html). This keyword validates if a specific object displays on the executing browser. Similar to the previous step, you need to specify the object that you have to use with this keyword.

  2. Finally, add the Close Browser (https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-close-browser.html) keyword and save your test case.

Close Browser Keyword Katalon Studio

  1. After that, click on Run  in the main toolbar to execute the test case.

Execute test Katalon Studio

Katalon Studio should execute all the steps of the sample test case, and you can see the Test Execution result in Log Viewer. For example:

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Recent Keywords

Recent keywords allow users to quickly add any of the last ten recently used keywords in the Item list. For example, let's take the test case above. If we have to add another Verify Element Present  after Step 4, the recent keywords feature will accomplish this in seconds.

Highlight Step 4. Click on Recent Keywords and select Verify Element Present. An extra step is added after step 4, as illustrated below:

Verify Element Present

Create test case using manual mode

Recent Objects and Object Folders

Katalon Studio allows users to quickly select recently used Object or jump directly to recently used Object Folder in Object Repository.

The recent list will have two sections: Object Folder and Test Object.

  • Test Object: Display the names of the last five selected objects
  • Object Folder: Display the names of 5 folders that contain any recently used objects

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