Mobile Self-Healing Support in AIQ

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WhileUse the script is being self-healed, the IDE will highlight the steps that have been changed as part of themobile self-healing process.

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Enabling Self-Healingarticle

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• Apply self-healing functionto bystable rightmobile clickingworkflows inside a step in the test script, selecting SelfHeal Script and then choose the browser.

  

  About Self-Healing

• Self-healing can be run without fallback, howeverfirst; it is not recommended.

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• Review healed steps after execution so accidental matches do not hide product changes or test defects.
• Document

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Validation workflow

1. Run the scriptmobile backscenario once.and identify locator failures that are candidates for healing.
2. Enable or review self-healing behavior for the affected steps.
3. Replay

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If an accessor fallback attribute is enabled but invalid during the self-heal run, its fallback attribute will be disabled.

If an accessor is fallback is disabled and invalid during the self-heal run, it will be deleted.

If an accessor is fallback disabled but valid during the self- heal run, its fallback attribute will be enabled.

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