In serenity-appium-screenplay-poc code leads to app restart

[fedeolto]

I used serenity-appium-screenplay-poc as boilerplate for a test suite and discovered that in net.poc.steps.NoteUserSteps class, in the @Given clause, the statement:

theActorCalled(actorName).can(BrowseTheWeb.with(herMobileDevice));

leads to a double instantiation of the Appium webdriver that causes the application under test opening twice.

A possible solution is invoking simply:

theActorCalled(actorName);

This is due to the fact that net.serenitybdd.screenplay.actors.OnStage#theActorCalled eventually calls net.serenitybdd.screenplay.actors.OnlineCast#actorNamed in which:

if (newActor.abilityTo(BrowseTheWeb.class) == null) {
  newActor.can(BrowseTheWeb.with(theDefaulteBrowserFor(actorName)));
}