Validate message and error dialog text
Validate message and error dialog text
A recording can validate the text of a message or error dialog. This turns a recording into a real assertion.
Area: Developer tools. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 0 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
- What's new in Page Scripting: 2:02 to 2:29, demo at 2:13
Quotes
- 2:13 "And that turns the recording into actually a real assertion, not just a sequence of clicks." - Describes the design intent of message validation: recordings become real tests with assertions.
- 2:29 "it's now also possible to actually use agents to try to generate" - Notes that agents can be used to generate page scripts.
Documented features match
- Page Scripting enters General Availability - medium confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573384. Page scripting GA improvements
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: page-scripting, assertions, testing, error-messages
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.