Debugging in Autopilot: Player and Playback

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A built-in player offers a few modes of testing and debugging your automation. Play your Script unit by unit or end to end.

Cinema mode: Off

Play from here
Starting from the chosen item performs all the actions till the end of the Script. On every context leave, the matchers of all the contexts run to decide which context should enter next. See the context matching lesson for details.

Play this context once
Starting from the chosen item performs all the actions till the end of the context. No further context matching happens.

Play this action once
Executes the chosen action and moves the control to the following one without touching it.

Debug this action
Executes the chosen action, retaining control – handy when you need to test the same item repeatedly.

Perform context matching
Finds the context that matches the page in the browser, if any.

Reset
Cleans up all the feedback and sets the browser to the blank document so that you can start from scratch.