What is an action?

1. A logical unit of a test is called action. Actions divide your test into logical sections. When you create a new test, it contains a call to one action. By dividing your tests into calls to multiple actions, you can design more modular and efficient tests.
2. An action consists of its own test script and its own object repository if the test is in per-action repository mode.
3. Each action is stored together with the test in which you created it. You can insert a call to an action that is stored with the test and, depending on the properties of the action, you may also be able to call an action stored with another test.
4. For every action called in your test, QuickTest creates a corresponding action sheet in the Data Table so that you can enter Data Table parameters that are specific to that action only.
5. You can specify input parameters for actions, so that steps in an action can use values supplied from elsewhere in the test. You can also output values from actions to be used in steps later in the test, or to be passed back to the application that ran the test.

When you run a test with multiple actions, the test results are divided by actions within each test iteration so that you can see the outcome of each action, and you can view the detailed results for each action individually.