Introduction to Custom Methods

A Custom Method in WalnutAI is a user-defined action or assertion designed to handle testing requirements that are not covered by the platform’s built-in actions.

Custom Methods extend WalnutAI’s capabilities by allowing you to define your own testing logic and functionality. They can be created using the WalnutAI VS Code extension, where you can describe the required behavior in plain language, review and customize the generated implementation, and debug it before making it available in WalnutAI.

Once a Custom Method is synchronized with WalnutAI, it becomes available as a Custom Action, which can be added to test cases and used during test execution.

With Custom Methods, you can:

• Create custom actions and assertions for functionality not supported by standard WalnutAI actions.

• Describe requirements in plain language and use WalnutAI to generate an initial implementation.

• Customize the generated implementation to meet your specific testing requirements.

• Debug and validate methods in VS Code before making them available for test execution.

• Manage methods through a connected Git repository for version control and centralized management.

• Synchronize changes across the WalnutAI VS Code extension, WalnutAI, and the connected repository.

• Reuse custom functionality across test cases by making synchronized methods available as Custom Actions.