Recording

Refining steps in the Action History

Reorder, filter, comment and fine-tune recorded steps, without recording again.

The Action History lists every step as a card, in order.

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Counters: total steps, act (interactions), nav (navigations), ast (assertions).
Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y), up to 50 changes.
Collapse all / Expand all cards.
Filter actions... searches step text, values, URLs, comments and locators; the dropdown filters by All, Interactions, Navigations, Assertions. Reordering is disabled while a filter is active.

Element	What it does
Checkbox	Selects the step (Shift+click selects a range).
Drag handle	Drag to reorder. The first step always stays first.
Chevron	Collapses or expands the card.
Number, icon, title	Position and readable description, e.g. Click Sign in, Type “demo@shop.test”.
Box icon	Adds the step’s element to the current Page Object, or removes it (see Page Objects).
Duplicate Action	Copies the step right below.
Delete Action	Removes the step.
NOT / SOFT badges	Shown on negated or soft assertions.
BDD keyword	The Gherkin keyword for this step: the first step is always Given, the last is always Then; steps in between can be set to When, Then or And (by default: assertions get Then, the step just before an assertion gets When, the others And).
Locator health dot + dropdown	Green = strong (3+ alternative locators), amber = fair or fragile (2 or 1), red = none. The dropdown chooses which locator the code uses — if the page changes, switch locator instead of re-recording.
Pick item	Only for list steps (see Repeating lists).
Add a comment...	Free text. Appears as a comment in the code, a note in Manual Steps and a comment in Gherkin.

Hovering a card highlights the element in the browser and the matching line in all three output views.

Select cards with their checkboxes to show the selection bar:

All visible / Clear — select all filtered steps / clear the selection.
Set BDD… — apply When, Then or And to all selected steps.
Pin / Unpin — pinned steps stay visible even when they don’t match the filter.
To method — turns the selected steps into a Page Object method (see Methods).
Delete — deletes the selected steps.

Hover the thin gap between two cards and click +:

Record from here — sets the insert point for the next recording (see Editing an existing test).
Insert wait — adds a pause of 500ms, 1s, 2s or 5s.

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