Validation of Tooltips

Validating tooltips is a bit more challenging than validating other types of UI elements because they appear only when you hover over a UI element and are visible for a limited time. In this article, you’ll learn how to validate tooltips in Ranorex Studio.

Screencast: The screencast Tooltip validation walks you through the information found in this chapter.

In this example, we want to validate that the tooltip shown below appears correctly when a user hovers the mouse over the Shuffle button in the Ranorex Demo Application.

Tooltips are validated using a dedicated Recorder hotkey. For a complete list of Recorder hotkeys, see Recorder control center & hotkeys.

Use this procedure to capture a tooltip for validation:

1. Start recording in Ranorex Studio.
2. Move the mouse cursor over the UI element whose tooltip you want to validate (in this example, the Shuffle button).
3. When the tooltip appears, press T.
   
   
4. In the next screen, check whether the correct tooltip element has been selected and click Next to confirm.
Ensure the attribute Exists is checked and click OK to confirm.

Note: For tooltip validation, the Exists attribute confirms that the tooltip UI element is present when the validation runs. If needed, you can also combine it with additional attributes (for example, tooltip text) to make the validation more specific.

After the recording stops, Ranorex Studio returns to the main window. The actions table shows two recorded actions. Action 2 is the tooltip validation.

1. Actions table and tooltip validation action.
2. Linked repository item representing the tooltip UI element.