Video recording with Xbox Game Bar

Does Xbox support testing? The answer is yes but, in which way?

In quality control, adding images and/or videos helps testers, analysts, developers or any other person in making a bug to be reported more understandable.

Those with a PC with Windows 10/11 can record videos using the Xbox Game Bar: it is a pre-installed gaming utility created to record game videos (no need to download third-party software!), but it can be used to acquire any type of photo and/or video.

To open the Game Bar, simply press the “Start+G” key combination.
The capture section (top left in the photo) is used to take a screenshot or record a video: with the first button you take the screenshot, with the third the recording starts.

If the user has started recording a video, to stop it simply press the "stop" button from the capture section:

To obtain the attachments to include in the bugs, simply open the Windows File System and open the "Acquisitions" section under the "Video" heading. Pressing “View My Captures” from the Xbox Game Bar will always navigate to this page.

For more information, visit support.xbox.com

apple

This tool is not available on Macs, but there is another one that is also already installed and it doesn't need third-party software to be used: Quicktime player. To start recording a video, simply search the software on your Mac and, under "File", press the item "New screen recording" as the images show:

Conclusion

There are many tools that allow you to record photos and videos from PCs, these are the ones I mainly used and I've enjoyed. Beyond the tool, it is important to add photos and videos to the bugs because images are and will always be more significant, clear and comprehensive than words.