Action

An Action is a kind of Performable in which an Actor does something or interacts with the application in such as way as to change its state. Specifically, an action should be the smallest, most granular change or interaction possible; something which cannot reasonably be split into constituent parts.

In an application of Screenplay which controls a web browser, an action might be a single mouse click, or entering some specified text into an input field. To create higher-level interactions, use Tasks to compose actions. Out of the kinds of performable, actions are the smallest building blocks available.

Actions don't have a direct representation in Screenplay code because they are really just an arbitrary category of performable. Actions most commonly implement the IPerformable interface though, as they usually do not return any results.

Generally, the logic of actions interacts directly with the actor's Abilities in order to provide the functionality required to perform the action.