If you test your homepage or the web site of your rock-band you may use record-playback and feel happiness. But once you're moving to something serious you feel only the need to get help, right? :) The obvious disadvantages of record-playback are:
- The resulting script requires corrections anyway
- You have to be sure that you have no dynamic locators in your html. Like dynamic IDs.
- You are restricted in using flow control of your scenario
- You are restricted in driving your test with the custom data
- You are restricted in verifying the result of your scenarios
- You are restricted in embedding your test suites into some more complicated solutions
So what to say. Just learn the programming languages and switch to testing tools' API. That is less comfortable but gives really wide capabilities and flexibility.
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