How to map between manual steps to script mode line number in Katalon Studio

[kazurayam]

@sharath.hanumantha

How to map between manual steps to script mode line number in Katalon Studio

No way.

It seems you imagin that there is a simple, straight-forward “mapping” rule between the source code lines in the Manual mode and the lines in the Script mode.

No, that is not the case.

The system is far more complexed. See the following post of mine:

My code is lost if after updating in manual mode

I guess, the Manual mode of Test Case editor in Katalon Studio is built on top of the Groovy language’s “Abstract Syntax Tree Transformation” feature. The Manual mode reads the Groovy source of a Test Case to compile it to generate an instance of Abstract Syntax Tree and keep it in memory. When you modify the test case in the manual mode, the editor transforms the AST instance to store your instructions. At this stage, the test case editor no longer remembers how the original Groovy source wa…

The keyword is “Abstract Syntax Tree Transformation”. See the following article for what AST Transformation is, which was written 15 years ago by Guillaume LaForge, the Groovy language mainterner:

What's New in Groovy 1.6