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Preeti Tripathy

5/24/20242 min read

Why Healenium:
Imagine a high-stakes scenario in a critical CI/CD environment where every second counts. The development team pushes a new change request, leading to modifications in the Document Object Model (DOM) and UI locators. Suddenly, automated tests that previously ran flawlessly begin to fail, not because of functional issues, but due to these unforeseen changes. The entire release process is at risk, potentially causing delays and impacting the automation regression testing.

Healnium addresses this exact predicament by intelligently adapting to changes in the DOM and UI locators.

Healenium Architecture:

Healenium saves a successful locator in storage to use as a baseline for subsequent test executions. In the event of a UI change and an element locator alteration, Healenium encounters the NoSuchElement exception, activates the LSC algorithm, processes the current page state, retrieves the previous successful locator path, and compares them to generate a list of healed locators. It then selects the locator with the highest score and performs the necessary action. After the test execution, Healenium generates a comprehensive report detailing the healed locator, including a screenshot and a feedback button to assess the healing success.

Healenium can be used with:

  • findElement/findElements methods

  • using under parent element: parent.findElements()

  • @FindBy and PageFactory

  • using semantic locators like Id, Name, ClassName, LinkText, PartialLinkText, TagName

There are two approaches for using Healenium:

Healenium-Proxy

Healenium-Proxy is a platform-agnostic solution, ensuring compatibility across different programming languages. This approach entails running a standalone proxy server that operates between the test runner (Selenium server) and the web application under test.

Healenium-Proxy with Dockerfollow https://healenium.io/docs/download_and_install/hlm_proxy_docker


Healenium-Proxy without Docker

Follow https://healenium.io/docs/download_and_install/hlm_proxy


Healenium-Web

Healenium-Web involves integrating Healenium directly into the test code of a Java application. This approach is exclusively compatible with Java applications. By incorporating the Healenium-Web dependency, users need to create a WebDriver and wrap it with SelfHealingDriver.

Healenium-Web with Docker

https://healenium.io/docs/download_and_install/hlm_web_docker

Healenium-Web without Docker

https://healenium.io/docs/download_and_install/hlm_web

Lets us understand how to use Healenium-Web without Docker

  1. Add Healenium dependency in the pom.xml file

<dependency>
<groupId>com.epam.healenium</groupId>
<artifactId>healenium-web</artifactId>
<version>3.5.1</version>
</dependency>

  1. Add healenium.properties to ur resources