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Screenplay is a software design pattern and accompanying library code which helps developers write reusable logic for Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) tests. It's most useful for integration and acceptance testing. When applied to web application testing, Screenplay is essentially a refinement of the Page Object Pattern.

The Screenplay libraries are used as plugins to a testing framework, such as SpecFlow (recommended) or NUnit. Test logic is written and composed using Screenplay's building blocks, which in-turn control the system/software under test.

As well as improving the reusability of test logic, Screenplay also produces detailed reports from the test execution. These reports, which may be converted into a number of formats, provide a step-by-step breakdown of what happened in the scenario, allowing quick diagnosis of failures.

Tutorial: Your first test

There are two step-by-step tutorials available for writing your first Screenplay tests:

• Read the NUnit tutorial
• Read the SpecFlow tutorial

Reference

Once you have the basics, the Screenplay reference provides more information about how specific APIs are used.