initial-actions.md

Initial actions

Custom actions before test starts: set input text, click element, submit from, wait for element. Like Selenium but much more simple and limited. Use it to fill in the login form.

Configuration

To enable this feature, create configuration .ini file and provide location to it:

--initial-actions-file config/initial_actions.ini

Example file with comments: config/examples/initial_actions.ini

Configuration of single action:

[your_informative_action_name]
action = action_name
text = example text
css = .class_name

action name	Required additional options	Description
set_text	css, text	Set text to element located by css.
click	css	Click element located by css.
submit	css	Submit form located by css.
wait_element_present	css, timeout	Wait max. timeout seconds until element located by css is present.

Initial actions URL

By default browser loads start_url, performs initial actions and opens start_url as usual.

To perform actions on different URL, use --initial-actions-url option. For example:

--url example.com/admin_area
--initial-actions-url example.com/login_page