Self-Healing Questions for Scenario Editor

Last reviewed: September 30, 2026

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Below list of assessors that can be SelfHealed:

findElsByJqStr

focus

blur

expand

doSearch

collapse

formSubmit

pointerOut

pointerOver

pointerEnter

pointerLeave

pointerDown

pointerUp

click

click2

clickIfFound

rightClick

mouseOver

mouseMove

mouseDown

mouseUp

drop

drag

nativeDrag

nativeDrop

clickXY

mouseOverXY

mouseMoveXY

mouseDownXY

mouseUpXY

mouseDrag

mouseDrop

doubleCkick

doubleClickXY

toggleStyle

setCaretPosition

sentEnter

sentText

selectText

clearText

sendKeys

setValue

setText

setValuetoEditor

setSelected

setChecked

reOrderListForVue

break

paste

assertContrainsText

assertDoesNotContainText

waitUntilVideoCompleted

keyboardCommand

setHTML

The two asserts that can be self-healed are bolded above, assertContainsText and assertDoesNotContainText.

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I had a meeting with our lead developer about your use case asking for more complex actions that would self-heal. He said at this moment we don’t currently support it, and it would be a major project to add self-healing to more assert’s as we would need AI deep learning to automatically pull assessors from the page that doesn’t currently exist. In the future, it's definitely a possibility, but at this moment and in the near future we don’t see this as a feature we will be able to support. We agree 100% that it would be awesome to include, just a massive project to start and finish.