Self-healing tests
Self-healing tests use resilient element location strategies — and often a model to resolve ambiguity — so that an automated test continues to work when the underlying markup changes but the user-facing behaviour does not.
The goal is to remove the largest maintenance cost in UI automation: a class rename breaking fifty tests that were otherwise correct. The risk to manage is a test that heals itself into passing against genuinely broken behaviour, so healing events should be logged and reviewed rather than silently applied.
Related terms
- Flake rate
Flake rate is the proportion of test runs that fail intermittently without any change to the code under test, and it is the primary measure of whether a test suite can be trusted.
- QA agent
A QA agent is an LLM-driven tester that explores an application by reading its interface, deciding what to try next, and reporting what appears broken — covering exploratory testing that fixed scripts cannot.
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