Pre and Post Actions

An element action that can be performed before or after the main action.

Pre and Post actions are important aspects of any user experience and essential in any automated testing process. They allow us to prepare the element for a test before executing it and clean up after it is finished. QATTS has a rich set of actions for all the element types, which can be easily configurable.

Pre-Action can be used to set up the element for the test

Post-Action can be used to reset the element back to its original state / to activate the next element in automation.

How can i use these action

We can configure the actions in any UI Element in the properties section as below

action.pre : click

action.post : highlight

Multiple actions can be given in comma separated.

Automation

Action Name	How it works	When to use
click	Performs click operation on the element.	Many cases, this will help you. Few of them were : 1. When the textbox is not in active state is not blinking 2. When the pointer is not blinking in the textbox 3. When the text is not getting populated
waitforloader:YOUR_UI_ELEMENT	By default, this command takes the UI element which is configured in the Product. If not, the user can provide in the below way waitforloader:YOUR_UI_ELEMENT In general, waits for the loader to be invisible.	When a loader appears after clicking on a button When loader appears after populating something
clear	It clears the value from a textbox	By default, when populating a value into textbox it clears and sends the value. In special cases, when the value is not getting cleared and getting appended we can use this
highlight	Highlights the element with a red rectangular box	When the element action was getting performed and event was not getting triggered We can use this for debugging the element
escape	Performs the keyboard escape action on the element	When a date picker was getting populated, to collapse the picker pop-up we can use this
tab	Performs the keyboard tab action on the element	When in a form, to activate the next element we can use
left	Performs the keyboard left action on the element	Some times to append a value with certain index / To activate the pointer also we can use this
right	Performs the keyboard right action on the element	Some times to append a value with certain index / To activate the pointer also we can use this
up	Performs the keyboard up action on the element	Some times to append a value with certain index / To activate the pointer also we can use this
down	Performs the keyboard down action on the element	Some times to append a value with certain index / To activate the pointer also we can use this
pageup	Performs the keyboard pageup action on the element	When to capture the screenshot of the current / top view When in editor mode, to go to the starting point index
pagedown	Performs the keyboard pagedown action on the element	When to capture the screenshot of the current / bottom view When in editor mode, to go to the ending point index
backspace	Performs the keyboard backspace action on the element	To add a trailing and leading spaces in the text by default when populating a textbox
delete	Performs the keyboard delete action on the element	When working on a combo box to clear the old value we can use this.
focus	Makes the element as an active element in the current document	In general, It can be used when the textbox / any button is not in avtive state. To make the element active before performing the action. It can be used
movetoelement	It helps us to move the mouse cursor on to the web element and performs the cursor operation with offset(1,1)	It can be applied when the element is not in active state and becomes active whenever the mouse hovers only.
scrolltoelement	It scrolls to the element and make the element visible in the viewport. No matter how long we have to scroll	Any browser will have auto scroll feature when action was performed by default. If it doesn't work we can use this configuration in making the element visible in the view port.
dispatchevent	It frees up the element from all the events that were blocking the element for performing operations	When the particular element is having certain events, which were blocking to perform a click/populate actions we can use this in pre action
doubleclick	Performs the double click operation on the element	When the element has a customized functionality to perform double clicks
submit	Performs the enter operation on only forms which causes the current page to change	When working on a form to submit it after all the populations. In the final element we can use this in the POST action. Note : If the element is not in a form, we might get NoSuchElement exception
enter	Performs the keyboard enter operation on the element	When we are working on a chat window / forms this can be used in POST action which might cause the current page change.
sleep:YOUR_WAIT_TIME	This causes the current execution instance sleep for the given time	Not Recommended It is just an option to wait for something to complete or invisibilities.