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# Insert Test Cases and Custom Methods

Smart Recording allows you to **reuse existing test cases and custom methods** within the current recording session. Instead of recreating workflows or actions that are already available, you can insert them directly into your recording at the required point.

This helps you **reuse existing automation, reduce duplicate steps, maintain consistency across test cases, and build complex test flows more efficiently**.

* Start a **Smart Recording** session.
* Click the **+** icon in the bottom bar. The **Insert test case** window opens with two tabs:
  * **Test cases:** Displays the test cases available in the current project.
  * **Custom methods:** Displays the custom methods available in the current project.

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* Select the required tab, choose the **test case or custom method** you want to reuse, and select the required **Environment** in which it should be executed.

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* Select where you want to insert the **test case or custom method** in the current recording session:

  * **End of recording:** Adds the test case or custom method at the end of the recording.
  * **Start (after the opening Navigate):** Adds it after the opening Navigate step.
  * **Before the opening Navigate (first step):** Adds it before the opening Navigate step.
  * If the recording already contains steps, the available insertion points are displayed based on the existing steps. Select the required location.

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* Enable **Run it now using its own test data, so recording continues from where it leaves the app** if you want the selected test case to execute immediately after insertion.&#x20;

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* If the option is not enabled, the selected **test case or custom method** is added to the recording without being executed immediately. You can then choose how to proceed from the chat panel:

  * **Run it now:** Executes the reused test case in the current browser session.
  * **Leave it as a block:** Adds the test case to the recording without executing it.
  * **Run everything from the start:** Clears the current session and replays the entire recording from the beginning, including recorded steps and inserted blocks.

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* The selected **test case or custom method** is added to the recording at the specified location, allowing you to reuse existing automation as part of the current test flow.