Test Palette Introduction
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The Test Palette is where you’ll find a rich set of test commands to perform various testing activities within Provar Automation. Commands are broken into smaller, collapsible sections based on the type of test activity.
In general, to use a test command in your test, locate it in the Test Palette view and drag and drop it into your test case. This will create a test step corresponding to that command.
Note: Custom test steps are a way to extend the standard features of Provar Automation by writing your own logic in the form of an API and invoking it easily across all test cases. You can learn more about creating custom APIs here.
Find the support documents for these commands linked in the tables below.
Control
These test steps offer control logic such as decision statements, loops, assertions, and setting values in variables.
Data
These test steps support database testing by providing data addition and modification operations on your database connection, web services testing, and email testing.
| DB Connect |
| DB Delete |
| DB Insert |
| DB Read |
| DB Update |
| Publish Message (Documentation coming soon) |
| Receive Message (Documentation coming soon) |
| SQL Query |
| Send Message |
| Subscribe |
| Web Connect |
| Web Request (REST) |
| Web Service Request (SOAP) |
Design
These test steps support a Behavior-Driven Development approach to testing and contain steps applicable for testing with the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool.
Provar AI
Provar Labs
Salesforce
These test steps support various Salesforce specific operations such as loading test data into Salesforce (APEX Bulk) and testing Salesforce layouts (Extract Salesforce Layout and Assert Salesforce Layout).
| Apex Bulk |
| Apex Execute |
| Approve Work Item |
| Assert Salesforce Layout |
| Convert Lead (Documentation coming soon) |
| Extract Salesforce Layout |
| Log For Cleanup (Documentation coming soon) |
| Salesforce Connect (Documentation coming soon) |
| Submit for Approval (Documentation coming soon) |
UI
These test steps perform user interface testing and can often be created more quickly using the Test Builder. This process is often preferable to drag-and-drop from the Test Palette since the user can prefill more options. When this option is available, it will be described on the test command’s help page with step-by-step examples.
Utility
These test steps allow you to manipulate strings, compare lists, read data from a file, and write to Excel.
For more information, check out this course on University of Provar.