Select Tools > Options > GUI Testing tab > General node.

Clicking the Restore Factory Defaults button resets all product settings, including ALM connection information, the recent files list, and anything defined in the Options dialog box, such as startup options, UI layout, GUI, API, and BPT testing options, remote connection credentials, and more.

Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to automatically save the copies of open tests every few minutes as you work.

You can customize the auto-save interval in the Time period for auto-save. Default: 3 minutes.

Any changes to these settings take effect only after you restart OpenText Functional Testing.

Determines whether the defined virtual objects stored in the Virtual Object Manager are recognized while recording. For details, see Virtual Objects.

Open actions and scripted GUI components in this view

Specifies the view to use when opening a GUI action or scripted component.

Default = Last used view

You can still use the Toggle between the Keyword View and Editor button in the toolbar to switch between views.

Determines whether to automatically update test and component steps when you rename test objects in the local or shared object repository. For details, see Modify object properties.

Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to automatically parameterize the test object method arguments in any action in which you recorded one or more steps during a recording session.

You can select to parameterize the steps with Global Data Table Parameters or Test Parameters.

For details, see Automatically parameterize steps.

Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to automatically generate With statements when you record. For details, see Generate With statements.

Indicates the minimum number of identical, consecutive objects for which you want to apply the With statement. This setting is used when OpenText Functional Testing automatically generates With statements after recording and when you select to generate With statements for an existing action.

Default = 2

For details, see Generate With statements.

Specifies the time (in tenths of a second) that OpenText Functional Testing waits before it sets the focus on an application window when using the pointing hand to point to an object in the application (for example, when using the Object Spy, checkpoints, Step Generator, or Recovery Scenario Wizard).

Default = 5

Generates an OpenText Functional Testing script containing most of the current global testing options.

When you click the Generate Script button, a Save As dialog box opens, enabling you to specify the name and file system location to store the generated file.

You can use some or all of the script lines from this generated script in a test. This can be useful, for example, if you want to create an initialization script that opens OpenText Functional Testing with a pre-defined set of options applied.

View a sample generated script

For details, see Product automation scripts and Product Automation Object Model Reference.