Install and set up

What you need

These are minimums.Anything above them works too.

The apps run on Windows, yet they test anything you can see on that screen: websites in any browser, desktop programs, Android phones shown on the screen, macOS or Linux in a virtual machine, and games.

Download and install

1. 1

   Create your free account

   Sign up on our website with your email address and a password, or with Google.Your 15-day trial starts there, with every feature, and we do not ask for payment details.

   Create your account

2. 2

   Download the installer from your account page

   One installer sets up GUI Test Runner-Recorder, GUI Test Studio and the command-line runner.

3. 3

   Run the installer

   Pick the language of the apps, accept the licence and click Install.Everything the apps need comes with it: text reading, phone mirroring and video recording included.

   One page asks whether the apps may send anonymous usage statistics, which is on by default; untick it to say no.It never includes a test's content, and either app's Preferences let you change your mind later.See the privacy policy.

4. 4

   Start the apps

   The installer's last page lists both apps, GUI Test Runner-Recorder and GUI Test Studio, each with a box to start it right away.Your first test is recorded in GUI Test Runner-Recorder.

The first start

The very first time, the app asks you to sign in: it shows a short code and opens your browser, where you sign in to your account and click Allow This Computer.You do it once per computer, and the three programs share it.

Seats, computers and your team

The first time either app opens on a computer, it asks a few short questions so the apps fit the way you work: whether you test applications or video games, and what a recording should check by itself.Every answer is a setting you can change later, and Skip keeps the recommended choices.

Its first page sums up how a test is made, starting with the two ways to create one: Record it, or describe it, in a prompt to your AI assistant.

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Then GUI Test Runner-Recorder offers its Getting Started Guide.It lights up one button at a time and waits for you to click it, and it gives you a small practice web page to record, so your first test is made, run and read during the guide itself, with nothing of yours needed.You can open it again at any time from Help, Getting Started Guide.See Your first test.

Each step of the guide is short, with a small animated picture.At AI Smart Verification, it goes on inside Preferences: tick Enable AI Smart Verification, and the next card shows where to choose your AI, in the cloud or on your computer.Preferences stays open for you to set it up; close it to move on with the guide.

While an app starts, it shows one tip about the apps, a different one each time.

Languages

Both apps speak English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.By default they follow the language of Windows.To choose another one, open Settings, Preferences, and pick it at the top of the General page; the apps switch at their next start.

The language of the apps is separate from the languages a text check can read, which also include Portuguese, Dutch and Arabic.

Updates and uninstalling

When a new version is published, each app tells you at its next start.You choose Update Now, which downloads and installs it, or Later, and the app goes on as it is.What's new in that message opens the release notes of the new version.A critical update may be required: the app then installs it before it goes on, and the command-line runner says the same in a pipeline.

A new version installs over the old one and keeps every preference, and so does installing the apps again.Your tests, recordings and results are never touched: they are your files, in your folders.

See what changed in each version

Uninstalling removes the apps from the computer and asks whether your preferences should go with them.Your tests stay where they are either way.The uninstaller also asks why you leave; your answer helps us improve the apps.