Dev Overview
In these sections, you’ll get to know how to develop keywords, extend and customize step using provided APIs.
| API | Description and links |
|---|---|
| Keyword API | To develop keywords you should refer to our Keyword API page and may follow the tutorial to create simple Java and Selenium Keywords. |
| step client API | This API enables you to interact remotely with a step controller or to execute locally functionalities exposed by a controller. More details on our sep client API documentation page. |
| Event Broker API | EventBroker Service and API allow asynchronous communication; this is detailed here. |
| Groovy macros | You may define and develop your own groovy macros that will be available while evaluating groovy expression in step plans. If you’re interested, you can follow the installation documentation in the related administration section. A set of groovy script is provided as example in the libraries section. |
| Plan controls | A shortcut to the list of Controls available in step: [click] (https://step.dev/knowledgebase/3.17/userdocs/plans/controls/). |
| JUnit integration | step also provides a [JUnit runner] (https://step.dev/knowledgebase/3.17/resources/tutorials/junit-plan-runner/). |