[QA] Add extensible selection mechanism to more common actions

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Problem to solve

The next iteration for data-qa-* selectors should allow for more common actions.

Currently only Page::Base#has_element? and Page::Base#has_no_element has support.

It'd be nice for our tests to be able to execute these actions given the following example:

• click_element
• check_element
• uncheck_element
• fill_element

View

- [:OK, :Cancel].each do |a|
  = button_tag a, data: { qa_selector: 'action_button', qa_button_title: a }

Actions

it 'clicks the button' do
  click_element :action_button, button_title: 'OK'
end

Intended users

• Sasha (Software Developer)

Proposal

This will require a rewrite of how we invoke find on our elements, in addition to the method signatures.

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Documentation

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What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

When our tests can refer to common actions such as clicking, getting an attribute of an element, setting a text field, checking a checkbox using the extensible qa selector mechanism.

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