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Working Principles

Overview

Overview

Actor

An Acto

Ability

Interactions

Interactions are the basic elements provided by an ability. e.g.

  • Sleep for an amount of time
  • Click on an element
  • Enter a text into a text field or area
  • See if a Question matches a specified state
  • Post a rest request

There are interactions which execute user actions on an device like Click or Enter and there are interactions which query the status of an device like See.

## Tasks

Tasks are the building blocks of work flows and consists of:

for example:

 const logan: Actor = Actor.named(`Logan`);
 
 logan.attemptsTo(
     See.if(Text.of(MY_ELEMENT))
         .is(Expected.toBe(`the text of the element`))
 )

## Questions

a question retrieves the state of a device attribute or element. Text for example is a Question which retrieves the text of a web element. Just by itself a Question does not make sense. It is always used in combination with an Interaction like See, which uses the Question to check if a condition is met.

See section

for example:

const logan: Actor = Actor.named(`Logan`);

logan.attemptsTo(
    See.if(Text.of(MY_ELEMENT))
        .is(Expected.toBe(`the text of the element`))
)