Actions
When you manually add steps, first you need to choose a type of step. There are 2 basic types of steps:
- Click
- Double click
- Right click
- Hover (mouseover)
- Scroll
- Press mouse button (mouseDown)
- Release mouse button (mouseUp)
- Drag&Drop (BETA)
- Type text
- Select option
- Clear input
- Change value
- Upload file
- Go to URL
- New tab
- Close tab
- Set variable
- Answer a prompt - for accepting or declining browser alerts initiated by
alert(),confirm()orprompt().
Action name | When to use it? |
|---|---|
Click | When you want to click a specific element. This is the most common action for navigating the web. This also serves as "tap" action if you test mobile resolutions. |
Double click | When your app has a specific interaction on double-click, for example, double-click to open a file |
Right click | When your app has a custom context menu on right-click |
Hover | Important! This action is not recorded automatically. You need to enter "Hover" mode during the recording. Examples when to use it:
|
Scroll | When you need to force BugBug to scroll to specific coordinates. Usually, you don't need to add it manually, because BugBug handles the scroll automatically. |
Press mouse button | This action will initiate the mouseDown event. You can use it in combination with "hover" and "Release mouse button" to simulate drag & drop from one element to another element. |
Release mouse button | Release the mouse button ( mouseUp) on a specific element. |
Drag&Drop (BETA) | When your app has a slider that is interacted with by a drag&drop interaction. |
Action name | What it does? |
|---|---|
Type text | Types text into input, textarea or contenteditable fields. Simulates keyboard presses, entering characters one by one. |
Select option | Chooses a specific option in a native HTML select dropdown (also called "combobox" menu). |
Clear input | Removes all characters from a text input field, textarea or contenteditable |
Change value | Sets a value of any form element. HTML has many form controls and some of them can be set to a specific value, for example, radio groups. Technically a JS "change" event is triggered and the value is updated immediately, without typing letter by letter. Use it for typing longer texts. |
Upload file | Simulates "choose file" action in a form of type file for uploading in forms. You can customize the file that's going to be uploaded. |
Set variable
This action can be used to store local variables from tested sources. You can use a selector to find a text value on the tested web application.
Now you can store any text value from the tested web page in a variable and use it in feature steps. For example, to find out newly registered unique users in your CRM. This variable is also cross-domain.
Answer a prompt
Accept or decline browser alerts initiated by
alert(), confirm()or provide a custom text answer for a browser prompt().- To confirm the window prompt enter
truein the answer field. - To reject enter
false. - For
prompt()questions, enter a custom text that should be provided as an answer
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