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Reviewing auto-heals

Eva Ferreira
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As your web application changes, mabl uses auto-heal to keep your tests up to date. When a step auto-heals in a passing test in a plan run, mabl generates auto-heal insights.

This article explains how to review auto-heals, disable auto-healing, and fix incorrect auto-heals.

For more information on how auto-heal works, read this article.

Review auto-heals

To review recent tests that have auto-healed, visit the Insights page and set the Type filter to “Auto-heal”. Click on the insight to review auto-heal details, including the test, screenshot, and element history.

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Details for an auto-heal insight

To learn more about the auto-heal, click on the RESULTS link to view it directly in the test output.  Auto-healed steps include a Find Summary tab that outlines mabl's find confidence and the factors contributing to its final assessment.

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You can configure the mabl integrations for both Slack and Teams to send notifications when there are auto-heal insights.

Disable auto-healing

To prevent a recorded step from auto-healing, add Configure Find to the step and select “Disable auto-heal.”

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Disabling auto-heal

Fix incorrect auto-heals

If a test step auto-healed to target the wrong element, check the element history to see which attributes were updated. To ensure that a specific test step does not auto-heal to the wrong element again, take one of two approaches:

Rollback and edit

If you can identify the correct element attributes in the element history, consider the “rollback and edit” approach:

  1. On the test output page, click on the clock icon to roll back the element history to the correct attributes
  2. In the Trainer or quick-edit mode, add Configure Find to the step with auto-heal disabled

Rolling back the element history

Rolling back the element history

Retrain the step

If you are not sure which version in the element history represents the correct element, or the step has a shared element history, retrain the step:

  1. In the Trainer, play through to the prior step.
  2. Delete the step that auto-healed to the wrong element.
  3. Turn on the Rec button.
  4. Record the step again.
  5. Add Configure Find to the step with auto-heal disabled.

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