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title: Core Scout concepts
description: These pages explain Scout’s building blocks and how they fit together: Fixtures, Page objects, API services, Parallelism, Global setup hook, Deployment...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/core-concepts
products:
  - Kibana
---

# Core Scout concepts
These pages explain Scout’s building blocks and how they fit together:
- [Fixtures](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/fixtures)
- [Page objects](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/page-objects)
- [API services](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/api-services)
- [Parallelism](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/parallelism)
- [Global setup hook](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/global-setup-hook)
- [Deployment tags](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/deployment-tags)
- [Skip tests](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/skip-tests)
- [Feature flags](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/kibana/scout/feature-flags)