4. Record your first test

	While recording, use only the mouse for navigation Avoid using other input devices such as graphic tablets, touchpads, pens, …
	Click every step Do not use the tab key to navigate through forms
	Close other applications Close any other application or tool that you don’t need for the test
	Open the user guide on another machine If possible, open the user guide on another machine or tablet for reference while recording your test
	Click pause/continue in the recorder To check back to the user guide or perform actions that you don’t want to be recorded, just click the pause button in the Recorder control center
	Set display scaling to 100 % In the Windows display settings, set display scaling to 100 % for all of your displays.

1. Click the RECORD button to start the recording. Ranorex Studio automatically switches to the demo application and the Ranorex Recorder controls displays.

   

2. Click the Enter your name text field, enter Harry, and click Submit.
   
   

Notice that Harry appears in the welcome message. Let's add a validation so Ranorex Studio verifies this during testing.

1. Click Validate in the recorder controls to pause the recording and switch to validation mode.
   

2. Mouse over the welcome message. A purple frame appears. This means the UI element has been identified. Click it.
   

3. The Select element window opens. Check whether the screenshot in the lower right shows the UI element you want to validate. In this case, that's the welcome message, click Next to confirm.

4. The Validation settings window opens. Here, you can select which attributes to validate. In this case, Text is correctly preselected. Click OK to confirm and switch back to recording mode.
   

5. Click Stop in the Recorder controls to stop the recording and return to the Recorder view.

You can build your test solution according to the instructions in this chapter. Alternatively, you can download a prepared sample test solution.