Record and Playback:

RECORD AND PLAYBACK FRAMEWORK OR LINEAR FRAMEWORK:

            This is the framework used to work in starting days of Automation Testing Development. Those days automation was not developed and used to do like just recording the test cases and playing them back using Record and Run buttons, also called Capture and Replay Framework.

In Record and Playback Framework, we follow the below steps.

      Design a Test Case.

      Using the Record Button in the QTP Tool, Capture all the User Actions.

      Enhance the Recorded Script with Verification Points, Synchronization Points, etc…

      Run the Scripts and Analyze the Results.

Drawbacks:

      The major drawback of this framework is, the scripts are not reliable, even if the application has not changed, and often fail on replay.

      If the tester makes an error entering data, or test data got changed, or Application Functionality got changed, etc, the test must be re-recorded.