Is it possible to playback a recorded test (from Microsoft Application
Center Test) in a visible Internet Explorer, so that I can view the
state of the session after the manuevers of the test have been
performed? How?

Thanks,

There is no way to play back a recorded test in a visible IE window, only
to record a test from a visible IE window.

If you need to look at the state of specific data on a page, you can use
the ACT Trace file. Application Center allows you to do debugging through
a trace file, and you can output information to this trace file during the
execution of a script. By default the file is located in the Application
Center Test installation folder (Program Files/Microsoft ACT) and is called
ACTtrace.log. You can move the location of this trace file, from the
properties of a test.

Now, you can output to the trace files by using commands such as:

Test.Trace "The test is running"
...
Test.Trace oResponse.Body
...
Test.Trace "The test has ended"


In the above examples, we are outputting strings to the trace file. The
second line outputs the content of the property called Body to the object
oResponse. When we do a send request to the server, we get a response
object (oResponse) which has many properties, including the Body, which
corresponds to the actual HTML code sent back by the server to the client.
You can output anything to your trace file, from the Response object.

Hope this helps.

Please be advised that the correct newsgroup for Application Center Test is:

Microsoft.public.vsnet.act

You should post all your queries, and questions to that newsgroup.


-Andrés

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I promptly received an answer from Tian Min Huang).

Chris.

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