Submit a story to Hacker News

Preconditions

• The browser session is signed in to Hacker News

Variables

Supplied by the executing agent at run time. The registry never stores values.

• {{title}}textStory title (max 80 characters)
• {{storyUrl}}urlURL of the story to submit

Steps

1. 01
   Navigate

   Open the Hacker News submit page

   https://news.ycombinator.com/submit

2. 02
   Act

   Type {{title}} into the 'title' field

3. 03
   Act

   Type {{storyUrl}} into the 'url' field

4. 04
   Act

   Click the 'submit' button

5. 05
   Verify

   Confirm the browser landed on the newest page or the new item page

   Expect: The submitted title appears in the story list

Success criteria

• The story appears on news.ycombinator.com/newest with the submitted title

Known failure modes

• If HN shows 'that url has already been submitted'

  The page redirects to the existing discussion; treat this as a partial outcome and include the existing item URL in notes