Several looks for one check

Why several looks

The same screen can rightly look different: in dark mode, on a laptop instead of a 4K monitor, on another version of Windows, in French instead of English.Instead of one test per environment, keep one test whose checks hold one expected version per environment.

Steps have versions too

A baseline is not only for checks.Every event can hold a profile's version of what it does: the words a Type Text types, the key a Key Press presses, the address an Open Web App opens, the program a Run App starts, the file an Upload File hands over.Where a step happens on the screen and when it happens are shared by every version.Under the French profile, the test types the French words; under the default, the recorded ones.

Name your profiles

Open Settings, Project Settings in either app, and add your profiles in the Baseline Profiles card.A profile is just a name; the checks fill it in over time.

In GUI Test Studio, Profiles... on a Baselines tab opens the same list in a small window, the Default profile first.The Default profile can be renamed there too.

Give a check its version

Two ways, use whichever is quicker.

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   From a run (the quick way)

   Run the test with the profile selected, for example Dark mode.The checks without a dark version compare with the default and fail.In the report, Accept actual as baseline for Dark mode files each new look under that profile; the default stays as it was.

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   In GUI Test Studio

   Select a check or a step, open its Baselines tab and select the profile.The panel now shows that profile's version; Capture... starts a screen capture with a ghost of the check's region drawn where it stood, and Capture the Same Region takes the profile's version from that very place.

   The preview has a Baseline chooser of its own: pick a profile there and the preview shows the test as it runs under it.

Choose the profile of a run

On a test's page in GUI Test Runner-Recorder, pick the profile in the Baseline row before clicking Run Test.The choice is remembered for that test on this computer.

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1. 1Baseline: Default, or one of your profiles

Keep them tidy

Make Default turns a profile's version into the default, for when the new look becomes the main one, and keeps the old default under the profile.Renaming or removing a profile in Project Settings updates every check of the test.