Screencasts

Screencast is a video that documents bug reports, User Story executions, and other paid tasks within specific time limits:

1 minute for Bug Reports screencasts and 15 seconds for Reproductions and User Stories attachments.

If your bug report screencast exceeds the duration of one minute, don’t worry. The team leader may ask you to redo it as you are a Greenhorn tester.

However, this doesn’t mean that any video that doesn’t extend by more than 15 seconds will be accepted or that it can be redone! Remember: User Stories that are submitted cannot be edited.

If the screencast you ended up with is too long, refrain from editing the screencast to fit it into 15 seconds, as shown in the example below:

It looks odd, doesn’t It?

This fast-forwarded User Story screencast was rejected since it does not meet our requirements and shows a prohibited practice in our platform: editing screencasts.

Instead, follow the advice:

❝Since editing your videos is not allowed, instead of trying to fast forward your screencast to make it fit the limits you can check if you didn't record anything that's not actually useful to understand the bug. For the bug reports, normally only one or two extra steps (apart from the last one) are necessary to understand the bug. For Reproductions, you are only required to show the last step to reproduce the bug. Finally, for User Stories, you only need to show the results you've had (which usually means you also need to show only the last step or action taken by you to complete the User Story).❞

💡 Always double-check your attachments, especially for User Stories, because they can’t be changed once submitted!

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