Test Palette introduction
Provar Automation has a rich set of test commands to perform different testing activities.
In general, to use a test command in your test, locate it in the Test Palette view and click and drag it into your test case. This will create a test step corresponding to that command.
In the case of UI test steps, these test steps 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.
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.
Test Palette view
There are many different commands.
- 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.
- 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.
- Salesforce: These test steps support various Salesforce- and Force. com-specific operations such as loading test data into Salesforce (APEX Bulk) and testing Salesforce layouts (Extract Salesforce Layout and Assert Salesforce Layout).
- ServiceMax: These test steps are used for ServiceMax testing.
- UI: These test steps perform user interface testing and are best added through the Test Builder.
- Utility: These test steps allow you to manipulate strings, compare lists, read data from a file, and write to Excel.
Test Palette support articles
Control |
Assert |
Break |
Fail Test |
Finally |
For Each |
Group Steps |
If |
Set Values |
Sleep |
Switch |
Wait For |
While |
Data |
DB Connect |
DB Delete |
DB Insert |
DB Read |
DB Update |
Publish Message (Documentation coming soon) |
Receive Message (Documentation coming soon) |
SQL Query (Documentation coming soon) |
Send Message |
Subscribe |
Web Connect |
Web Request (REST) |
Web Service Request (SOAP) |
Design |
Actual Result |
And |
But |
Design Step |
Given |
Then |
When |
Salesforce |
Apex Bulk |
Apex Execute |
Approve Work Item |
Assert Salesforce Layout (Documentation coming soon) |
Convert Lead (Documentation coming soon) |
Extract Salesforce Layout (Documentation coming soon) |
Log For Cleanup (Documentation coming soon) |
Salesforce Connect (Documentation coming soon) |
Submit for Approval (Documentation coming soon) |
ServiceMax |
Dispatch Work Order |
SmaxMobile Tools |
UI |
UI Action |
UI Assert |
UI Connect |
UI Fill |
UI Handle Alert |
UI Navigate |
UI On Screen |
UI With Row |
Utility |
List Compare |
Match |
Read |
Replace |
Split |
Write |
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