Add Hover step without having to re-record?

I don't believe so, but I'll wait for an Admin to fully answer.  If you have a lot of elements to hover over, one thing you could try is to re-record the hover over one of the elements, copy and paste that step wherever you need it, and change the Primary Target in the Properties window for those steps.

Hi Donna,

Step Suggestions provides actions/verifications over the properties/events of the elements.

Mouse hover is a desktop command. That means that it affects the browser in the same way that a real user would affect the browser. 

To add a mouse hover action to an existing element you have 2 options.

- Edit the element in the Element Explorer and add the action in the browser.

- Add a simple coded step: 

element.MouseHover();

I recorded a short video as a demonstration of both options.

Let me know if this helps.

All the best,
Boyan Boev
the Telerik team

This one vexes me too...

If the desktop command is not relative to anything on the screen, I don't understand why desktop commands can't be in the suggestion list.  When I look at one of my hovers, for example, the coordinates are 0,0 relative to the center of the element - the position of the element is calculated at run-time (or so it would seem).

Is there something on the live page that is captured behind the scenes?

Hello Donna,

The actions in the Step Suggestions come from Test Studio Translators therefore every action is related to that concrete element.

I filed a future request to implement this functionality. You can track its progress and vote for it here: Public URL.

Thanks for your input, which we rely upon to improve our product.

Kind regards,

Boyan Boev
the Telerik team

This worked perfectly for my needs! Thank you so much for the idea. I was specifically trying to avoid re-recording or having to write a coded step and this did it.

I noticed, however, in doing this, that the procedure was a memory hog. I had to Save my work, close Test Studio, then re-open it and continue working (I had quite a few I needed to do) after re-targeting the Primary target a few times. But that was a minor work-around for a solution that worked for me.

Donna

Thank you for submitting this for a future request. Now that I've discovered Step Suggestions I prefer working with the already-saved elements and the suggestions (instead of re-recording) and I was disappointed to discover that the Mouse actions were not available. Thanks.

DITTO big time on the memory hog issue.  We are excited for R1 in 2013 that addresses memory issues!