Reusable trace design

Use routines in your traces to ease the maintenance work needed when your website changes. For example, many traces may need to login to your website before testing the other features. In this case, it’s useful to share the common login test logic among all traces that need to login.

In Usetrace, common trace parts can be reused. When recording a trace, you can extract steps to create a routine. After extraction, the steps will be replaced by a routine that performs the routine when the trace is run. This new routine, with the extracted steps, can be added to other traces as well.

To add a routine: 1) Extract steps from an existing trace to create routines and 2) add routine steps to use existing routines in new traces.

See also how to use parameters.

While using the Recorder, multiple steps can be saved as a routine directly instead of separate steps. Give a name to the routine you want to save.

The routine is saved as part of the parent trace and can be opened and its steps viewed separately as well.

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In the Editor, select multiple steps to create a routine.

The selected steps will now be extracted to a new routine. Give a name for the new routine.

The previously selected steps are now replaced by the new routine that you just created. You can open the routine from the step by clicking on the button.

When you have navigated to the routine, you can navigate back to the parent trace by clicking the parent's name tab - in this example ‘Register’.

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You can run routines at any point of your trace by adding them to your trace.

In the Editor, click the Pointer’s middle tab to add a routine to open up the options for adding a routine step. In the Pointer’s add routine tab, from the drop-down list select the routine you want to be run in your trace.

Finally, clicking on the selected routine adds it to the current trace.