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Building Test Steps

A test step is an element in the test case workflow that represents a single test action that is performed. Test steps are in two major categories:

• Most test steps act on the system under test, and evaluate the response. Some common examples are testing an Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) method, a web service, or a message through a messaging service provider.
• A second category of test steps performs utility functions, such as data conversion, data manipulation (such as encoding), logging, writing information to files.

Note: DevTest does not support sending I/O streams from test steps, properties, or both.

Both categories of steps go into the building of a test case.

This section contains the following topics:

Add a Test Step

Configure Test Steps

Add Filters - Assertions - Data Sets to a Step

Configure Next Step

Replay to a Step

Set a Starter Step

Generate Warnings and Errors