Working Environment and Views

The Ranorex Studio working environment provides a central place to manage your test solution and all its components. This article describes the basic working environment and default views.

Basic working environment structure

Ranorex Studio provides a working environment that follows common principles, such as hierarchical organization. Refer to the overview below for an introduction to the structure of the working environment.

1. Projects pad: The Projects view displays all projects, folders, references, and files that belong to your solution. Ranorex Studio projects are file-based and use the same solution/project file format as Microsoft Visual Studio.
2. Module browser pad: The module browser lists available recording and code modules in your project, as well as module groups from the module group file. It also shows variables defined by a module or module group. Use it mainly to drag and drop modules and module groups into the test suite view.
3. File View: Double-click a file in the Projects view or a module in the module browser to open it in the file view. The file view is the main working area where you edit and review open files, such as Test suite view, Recorder (Recording module), Reports, Code Modules, and other supported project files.

To open additional views, click View in the Ranorex Studio menu bar.

Note: Add views to the working environment using the View menu. To switch between open items in the file view, click the corresponding tab.

1. Test suite view (*.rxtst) - Ranorex test suite
2. Recorder view (*.rxrec) - Ranorex Recording module
3. Report file (*.rxlog) - Ranorex Logfile

Hint: To close an open item in the file view, click the X on its tab.