Inspect your application for objects

Use AI Object Inspection to identify objects in your application that you can use in your test steps.

This topic describes the prerequisites for inspection, the inspection process, and how you can provide feedback on the identification, helping to shape the future of AI-based testing.

Prerequisites

Tested application platform Prerequisites
Mobile

  1. Make sure the Mobile Add-in is installed and loaded.

    To test web applications on your mobile device, make sure the Web Add-in is installed and loaded.

  2. Connect to OpenText Functional Testing Lab and open your mobile device and the application you want to test. For details, see Create mobile tests.

Desktop web

  1. Make sure the Web Add-in is installed and loaded.

  2. Make sure that your browser is set up with the OpenText Functional Testing Agent extension. For details, see Set up web browsers and controls.

  3. Open the application.

    For best identification results:

    • Maximize the browser window and set the zoom level to 100%.
    • Set your Windows display settings to display all text and apps at 100%.
    • Make sure no banners are displayed in the browser aside from your web page.

Supported browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer.

Headless browsers are not supported.

Identify all AI objects displayed in your application

  1. Open the AI Object Inspection window to inspect your application and detect all AI objects in it.

    To open the window, do one of the following: 

    • From the Windows Start menu, select AI Inspection.

    • In your IDE Click the AI Inspection toolbar button.

  2. Click Select Application.

  3. Click a web application or the remote access window displaying your mobile application.

    Tip:  

    Press ESC to return to the AI Object Inspection window without selecting an application.

    Press CTRL to use the mouse for other operations on the screen before selecting an application.

    The Live Application tab displays the current screen of the application, highlighting all of the detected objects.

  4. Decide what type of objects you want to see: 

    Visual Element: The objects detected visually.

    Text: Areas of text in the application.

    You can choose to view one or the other, or both.

  5. After identifying the AI objects, you can Add AI-based steps to your tests.

Help design the future of AI-based testing in OpenText Functional Testing for Developers

After inspecting your application, you can provide feedback about the object identification. Send generic feedback OpenText to help improve the identification in the future, or attach it to a support ticket to receive assistance.

Depending on what is displayed in your version of OpenText Functional Testing for Developers, click How is the detection? Help us improve or Send Feedback. For details, see the Send AI Object Identification feedback topic in the OpenText Functional Testing Help Center.

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