Automating interactions for tests is hard. For the past decade, the primary way to automate web UI interactions has been the Page Object Model. Unfortunately, page objects do not scale well because, by design, they allow lots of code duplication and unsafe activity. The Screenplay Pattern is a much better pattern for handling interactions. In Screenplay, Actors use Abilities to perform Interactions.

Equipped with Self-Healing, Studio automatically finds and uses pre-configured alternative locators to identify web elements, preventing tests from breaking.. During 3 chapters, you will learn about: The mechanism and capabilities of Self-Healing Selecting and prioritizing different object locating methods, namely Xpath, Attributes, CSS, and Image Automatically replacing broken locators with new working alternatives How Self-Healing works in detail for different scenarios, including complex end-to-end tests