During playbook development and debugging, All Events provides the most consistent test scope because the engineer can repeatedly execute and evaluate the playbook against available event/container data rather than depending exclusively on events created after the playbook was activated.

A scope such as New Events is more appropriate for operational execution when the automation should trigger only as new events arrive. During development, however, restricting execution to newly created objects can make testing inconsistent: an engineer may need to repeatedly create fresh events simply to reproduce the same test case.

The artifact-oriented choices apply when execution is specifically driven by artifact creation or artifact-level behavior. They are not the broad event-level scope requested for consistent playbook debugging.

Using a stable test event is particularly useful when validating branching logic, asset actions, enrichment results, API responses, and downstream automation because the same input can be replayed while the engineer changes individual portions of the playbook.

The supplied study set discusses SOAR playbooks, containers, automation scope, and development workflows, although this exact debugger-scope question is not included verbatim.

Study Guide topics: Splunk SOAR Playbook Debugger, playbook scope, event processing, repeatable testing, automation development.