Test step settings

Step settings decide how one step behaves during a run: how long it waits, how often it retries, whether it captures a screenshot, and whether its result counts toward the test case result.

Click the ellipsis icon (⋮) on a step and select Step Settings. In the recorder, hover over a recorded step first, then click the ellipsis icon (⋮) and select Step Settings to open Step Details.

Note

The recorder offers 6 of the settings below: Max wait time, shown without the period, Pre-Requisite, Stop Test Case execution on Test Step, Ignore this step result in Test Case Result, Enable Visual Testing for the Step, and Disable Step.

Setting	What it does
Max. wait time	Fails the step when it takes longer than the limit. The maximum is 120 seconds
Retries on step failure	Re-attempts the step when it fails, up to 10 times
Screenshot capture	Always, Only on step failure, No screenshot required, or Use step level settings, which keeps what the step already has. The last option appears during execution only
Pre-Requisite	A step in the same test case that must pass before this one runs
Stop Test Case execution on Test Step	Ends the run when this step fails. Selected by default
Ignore this step result in Test Case Result	Leaves this step’s outcome out of the test case result
Disable Step	Skips the step during execution. Cleared by default
Enable Visual Testing for the Step	Captures the UI on this step and compares it against a baseline. Off by default. See Visual testing
Enable Accessibility Testing for the step	Validates the step against accessibility standards. Needs Web Accessibility Testing - Step Level turned on under Settings > Preferences > Web Accessibility Testing
Highlight element in screenshot	Marks the acted-on element in each screenshot

Note

Highlight element in screenshot is off until Testsigma support enables it for your account. It then appears under Settings > Preferences.

Global step timeout

Global Step Timeout, in the Additional Settings section of the Ad-hoc Run overlay, sets one wait time for a whole run. Its toggle decides whether a step’s own timeout survives.

Step timeout	Global timeout	Toggle	What runs
30 seconds, the default	30 seconds, the default	Off	30 seconds everywhere, since global and step match
30 seconds, the default	60 seconds	Off	60 seconds, because global overrides the default
Some steps customized	Any value	Off	Customized steps keep their own timeout, the rest take the global one
Some steps customized	Any value	On	The global timeout overrides every step

Two more run-level timeouts sit in the same Additional Settings section and apply to the whole run: Page Timeout, how long the test waits for a page to load, and Element Timeout, how long it waits for an element. Screenshot Capture there takes All Steps or Failed Steps, and applies across the run rather than per step.

Step options

Click a step to reach its inline controls, or the ellipsis icon (⋮) for the rest.

• Clear Step: empties the step’s action and data. The eraser icon does the same
• Clone Step: makes an identical copy of the step
• Delete Step: removes the step from the test case permanently
• Step Above and Step Below: add a step on either side of this one
• Disable Step: deactivates the step so it does not run
• Ignore Step Result: excludes this step’s outcome from the test case result
• Enable Visual Testing: captures and compares the UI on this step
• Step Settings: opens the full per-step configuration

In the recorder, click an element on a step to reach Edit, Change, and Create Element. Disable Step, Ignore Step Result, and Enable Visual Testing are applied by selecting the option and then clicking Update Step.

To reorder steps, hover over the drag handle (⋮⋮) before a step, drag the step to its new position, then click Save New Order.

Change several steps at once

Hover over a step number on the Test Case Details page, and the number becomes a checkbox. Select the steps you want, or click Select All in the menu bar to take every step on the page. The menu bar then offers 4 actions:

• Update Settings: changes settings across all the selected steps at once, which is how visual and accessibility testing are usually turned on. See Visual testing and Accessibility testing
• Create Block: builds a block from the selected steps
• Create Step Group: builds a step group from them
• Delete: removes them

The same 4 actions work on recorded steps in the recorder.

Note

Bulk updates cannot change Pre-Requisite or Retries on step failure. Set those on each step individually.