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Self-Healing Your Tests with Healenium: The Ultimate Fix for Flaky Automation Scripts
In the world of test automation, dealing with flaky tests is a common challenge. Whether it’s because of dynamic elements or small UI changes, these issues can lead to false negatives and increase maintenance efforts. That’s where Healenium comes into play.
This open-source tool is designed to bring a self-healing touch to your UI tests, especially when working with Selenium and Cypress.
In this article, we’ll explore how Healenium works, why it’s a game-changer for test automation, and show you how to integrate it into your existing framework.
What is Healenium?
Healenium is a self-healing tool for web automation that automatically identifies and updates broken element locators during test execution. When the test fails due to an element locator mismatch, Healenium searches for alternative locators to fix the issue and resume the test execution.
This drastically reduces test maintenance and keeps your automation scripts from becoming fragile.
For example, if a button locator changes because of a CSS update, Healenium will detect the failure and attempt to find another way to locate that element.
Don’t let your tests be held…
