Use dates and times

Tests that involve dates and times or have a behavior dependent on a date can be tricky. Trudon allows you to easily create a step that will generate a date or time according to predefined properties. Such behavior can be used in action steps (ex: setting a value in an input) or expectations.

Before using dates and times in your tests, I suggest you first play with the built-in variables, as it is quite similar.

In order to integrate the date/time feature offered by Trudon, you can edit any step from the test details or the test run details using the following format:

• {{ date 'REFERANCE_DAY' 'DATETIME_FORMAT' }}

Here are some examples:

• {{date '5 years ago' 'MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a'}} translates to: November 10th 2015, 7:57:48 pm
• {{date 'yesterday' 'MMM Do YY'}} translates to: Nov 10th 20
• {{date 'today' 'dddd'}} translates to: Tuesday
• {{date 'in 2 days' 'dddd, DD MMM'}} translates to: Friday, 13 Nov

How to format the reference day

You should pass a human-readable date phrase. Check the following examples:

• today, now
• yesterday, tomorrow
• 2 years ago, in 2 years
• 2 months ago, in 2 months
• 2 weeks ago, in 2 weeks
• 2 days ago, in 2 days
• 2 hours ago, in 2 hours
• 2 minutes ago, in 2 minutes

How to format the date/time

Trudon offers a robust way to format your date times. It takes a string of tokens and replaces them with their corresponding values. A few examples:

• dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss translates to: Sunday, February 14th 2010, 3:25:50
• ddd, hA translates to: Sun, 3PM
• [Today is] dddd translates to: Today is Sunday

A list of all available tokens that can be combined in any combination you might need can be checked in the table below.

To escape characters in format strings, you can wrap the characters in square brackets:

• [today is] dddd translates to: today is Friday