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Synonym Assist

Synonym Assist is a feature in Twist that lets you search for content(steps and concepts) by matching steps and concepts against synonyms of words that you have typed in. This is often useful in cases where similar steps have already been created but are referred to with a different synonym.

Synonym Assist is invoked with the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Space

Synonym Assist is currently only supported on the Scenario Editor and the Concept Editor

Synonym Assist in a workflow

Synonym Assist on a workflow step or on a concept helps in reusing steps that have already been implemented or used before. Typing in word(s) and invoking Synonym Assist will provide a list of suggestions steps and concepts to select from. All steps that contain the word(s) or any of its synonyms will be collected from across the project and listed.

A common example of Synonym Assist is when you are looking for everything related to the word "check" and you want to see all statements with "verify" as well.

Synonym Assist

  • In case multiple words have been typed, then only steps and concepts that match all the typed-in words or their synonyms will appear as suggestions.
  • Unlike content assist, words that have been partially typed in will not be matched.
  • The steps are grouped by the fixture to which they belong to. Normally steps could be grouped based on their action, or the page on which they are doing the action(Page object pattern).
  • Synonym Assist will display results ordered by concepts first, followed by implemented workflow steps and unimplemented steps finally.
  • The fixtures are ordered in a specific way with fixtures belonging to the current workflow appearing first(sorted left to right in order of appearance), followed by other fixtures in the scenario(alphabetically sorted), finally followed by fixtures in the rest of the suite(alphabetically sorted)