The TestComplete Test Visualizer captures images of your tested application for operations performed during the test recording and playback. For example, the test log includes a side-by-side view of the originally captured screen and the screen captured during the test playback to help you spot changes that occur in the application. When you notice some changes, you may want to update the Visualizer images shown for your test so that they illustrate the most up-to-date application state.
Note that Test Visualizer can be configured so that Visualizer frames contain information about objects displayed in the image (see Project Properties - Visualizer Options). This allows you to add new test operations directly from Visualizer. The test log, however, contains plain images which do not contain such metadata. So, if you update a Visualizer frame from an image in the test log, the resulting frame will not contain any object information, so you will not be able to add test operations from this Visualizer frame. To prevent an accidental data loss, TestComplete informs you about this situation and asks for your confirmation to update the Visualizer frame.
If you use Test Visualizer only to illustrate the test flow and do not use it to add test operations, you can answer Yes to proceed.
If you want to preserve the object information for the Visualizer frame, answer No and update the needed frame by using one of the following approaches instead:
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Locate the frame you want to update in Test Visualizer, launch your tested application and update the frame from screen. See Updating Images Manually From the Test Visualizer.
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Run your test with the Auto-update frames during the run option selected. See Updating Images Automatically During Test Run.
For more information about different ways to update images in Test Visualizer, see Updating Visualizer Frames.
See Also
About Test Visualizer
Updating Visualizer Frames
Test Results
Generic Test Log - Picture Panel