About supported WPM recorders
Several recorders are included in WPM:
- The Web Transaction Recorder in WPM offers advanced features, including an integration with SolarWinds Pingdom. Windows and macOS versions are available.
- The Deprecated WPM Recorder is being phased out. For deployment and usage details, see WPM online help.
Future WPM releases may not support editing recordings or playing transactions that originate in the Deprecated WPM Recorder.
Note the following details about WPM recorders:
- To learn about deploying Web Transaction Recorders, see the WPM Getting Started Guide.
- The Web Transaction Recorder does not respond to the middle and right mouse buttons.
- Recordings have different file extensions:
- Web Transaction Recorder files end with
.web-recording
. - Deprecated WPM Recorder files end with
.recording
.
- Web Transaction Recorder files end with
The following table provides feature comparisons:
Action |
Web Transaction Recorder (Windows) |
Web Transaction Recorder (macOS) |
Deprecated WPM Recorder |
---|---|---|---|
Navigate | |||
Click | |||
Text match | |||
Delete text | |||
File download | |||
File upload | 1 | ||
X, Y Capture | |||
Image Match | |||
Image Match with click | 2 | ||
Wait time | |||
Authentication | 3 | ||
Proxy authentication | |||
Handle certificates |
|
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Capture Tab key | 4 | ||
Capture Enter, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down key | 5 | ||
Capture Insert, Delete, Ctrl + key, Shift + key | 6 | 7 | |
Conditional steps | |||
Track navigation between browser tabs | |||
Integration with Pingdom | 8 |