Steps

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Steps (Cucumber Step Definitions)

Steps contains reusable Cucumber step definitions that interact with the web application through Selenium.

It uses the shared WebDriver instance created in Hooks and provides common actions such as navigation, waiting, clicking, and typing.

Element interactions are performed using a key-based element repository (StoreHelper + ElementHelper) to keep feature files readable and maintainable.

Responsibilities

The Steps class is responsible for:

Retrieving the active WebDriver instance via Hooks.getWebDriver()

Creating helper objects used during interactions:

Resolving UI elements dynamically by element key

Performing common UI actions:

Applying explicit waits to reduce flaky behavior

Driver and Wait Initialization

A new Steps instance is created by Cucumber, and its constructor prepares the runtime objects:

driver is obtained from Hooks

actions is created using the current driver

wait is configured with:

This ensures every step method can safely reuse the same wait and actions instances.