Use the Self-Healing function in Katalon Recorder

On some websites, automation scripts can fail because the default locator fails to find an element. In that case, Self-Healing will automatically try out other locators. If it finds a valid locator, it will continue the automation script using that locator and records the broken and valid locators for later use.

Enabling and disabling Self-Healing

Self-healing is enabled by default.

You can disable it by following these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Self-Healing.

2. Uncheck Enable Self-Healing execution.

3. Save and close.

Prioritizing locator methods in Self-Healing

Self-Healing uses 3 locator methods, in this priority order: id, css, xpath. However, the best locator methods may vary depending on your websites under test.

You can change the order of locator methods by following these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Self-Healing.

2. Make sure Self-Healing is enabled.

3. Drag and drop the locator methods in the order of your choosing.

4. Save and close.

Excluding certain commands from Self-Healing

caution

Some commands validate that a particular element exists on a certain page. We advise you to not trigger Self-Healing on these commands, as it encurs the risk of validating elements incorrectly.

By default, verifyElementPresent,verifyElementNotPresent,assertElementPresent and assertElementNotPresent commands are excluded from Self-Healing.

You can choose to exclude certain commands from Self-Healing by following these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Self-Healing.
2. Make sure Self-Healing is enabled.
3. Add the commands you want to exclude to the list.
4. Save and close.

notes

Regex is also supported for excluding commands. For example, you can exclude all command starting with the keywordwaitFor by adding ^waitFor to the list.

Approving Self-Healing proposals

When the default locator fails, Self-Healing finds alternative locators to complete the test execution. After the test execution is completed, you can choose to replace failing locators by approving Self-Healing suggestions.

The Self-Healing tab is refreshed on every new execution.

To approve Self-healing suggestions, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Self-Healing tab.

2. Select the suggested locators using the status filter.

3. Press Approve.