We should probably work together on this. I imagine a test looking more like "login with username and password", where the command "login" breaks out into an XPath like "//a[contains(., 'log in')]|//a[contains(., 'login')]|//a[contains(., 'sign in')]|//a[contains(., 'already')]" and the path to get there might include queries like "//a[contains(., 'account')]|//a[contains(., 'register')]|//a[contains(., 'sign up')]" . All of these would be considered safe/"non-destructive" actions.
I'm happy to discuss this in more detail - my contact details are in my profile - but the product I'm working is currently in public beta and we're venture funded.
We're taking a slightly different approach in that, in your example login form, we're using ML classifiers and some NLP techniques to pick the most likely candidate username and password fields, and if we get it wrong, you can correct us which then feeds into the training data.
We have free accounts if you'd like to try it out, at https://developer.unravel.io . It'd be great to see if the user experience from a developer's perspective is close to what you're imagining.
