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▶️ You can find a tutorial on how to edit actions on our Youtube channel.

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During the creation of your tests you will interact with the Agilitest editor. The editor allows you to create actions and to manage their executions in order to improve the maintenance of your tests.

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Script properties

To have global information about your scripts you can consult the script properties.

To do that, do a right click on your script and select “edit properties”.

The script properties window will be displayed.

In this window you can find:

The date of creation of your script
The number of actions
The number of subscripts
The number of playlists it is featured in
Diverse notes
Links associated with the script

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Create actions

Your created actions are going to be added one after the other in your script. It is possible to change their order manually directly in the editor.

There are three ways to create new actions:

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Actions menu

This menu appears when you have opened a script. It contains the actions used during a test.

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To create a new action, simply click on one of the actions in the menu and it will be added to the editor.

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Example :

If you want to create an “Enter text” action, click on the corresponding action in the menu,

Then, the newly created action appear, empty of any information, in your script

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You will need to complete your action manually or by dropping an interface element.

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Action created from a captured element

Once your element is captured with the capture tool, click on “Drag drop into editor”

While holding your element with your mouse, drag it into your editor and place it under an action to make the “Create action” input appear.

The generated action is linked to a graphical element in your application.

Select the action you want to do on your element.

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All actions are not available from this contextual menu. To have access to all the actions you can check the actions menu.

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Copy and paste an action

By doing a right click on on an action in your script, or a group of action, a contextual menu with different options appears.

This menu allows you to:

Copy/cut and paste
Delete permanently an action
Deactivate/activate an action or a group action

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Their display will be greyed out and a stop icon will be added to a deactivated action.

They won’t be played during the script.

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Active actions

You know that an action is selected when its colour is dark grey. This is what is called an active action.

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You can select multiple active actions.

To do that, select the first action, then press the SHIFT key on your keyboard and select the last one

All the actions in between those two actions will be selected (cf. from action 1 to action 3).

You can also use the CTRL key on your keyboard to select separately one or multiple action to add in a group of active actions.

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Actions linked to the application’s elements

What is an action composed of?

Agilitest editor gives graphical interpretations of the actions that will compose your scripts. The ATS format, which is a test language, is a text format that describe the whole of the actions.

Each action has an index that add up automatically and is numbered depending on its position in the script (cf. index 2).
Next to the index is the nature of the action, which can be parametered

Example :

For an enter action, you can enter the text you want to see appear in your test, (cf. “Hello World ! $key(ENTER)” for the action in the capture)

3. Then, under the nature of your action, you have the interface element and its options. In the options you can modify, specify or enter manually the Locator, which is the targeted element.

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Actions on the interface element

Click on the lego icon to the right of your element to add attributes to your element.

Enter or modify attributes

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You can also click on the element to add parents or children and specify their type.

If your locator, i.e your targeted element, can retrieve multiple elements on a page, click on the “#” to specifiy which element to select by its apparition order.

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💡 Tip

This functionnality can be useful to select a specific row or column in a table.

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Drag and drop an element

As seen previously, you can create an action by drag and dropping a captured element into your empty action.

Furthermore, you can drag and drop an element already used in a previous action into a new one.

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Empty element

An action may not have an element.

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Click on the root application to show different options

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Addition of an interface element: With this you can create an element with search criterias (type of element, parents, etc…)

It is also possible de variabilize the element index

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💡 Tip

You can make manual modifications on a system interface, however, we recommend to make those modifications via the “Desktop” application in an Start channel action.