Selenium Self Healing Locators | Fall Back Strategy

𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 UI Automation Challenge: While working in UI Automation, we often come across a challenge that our test cases are failing because of locators got changed. Solution is replace the locators which is quite painful and time taking 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫  Fall Back Strategy? 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟏: 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟐: 𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟑: 𝐈𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟒: 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟑 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟓: 𝐈𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟔: 𝐀𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝟕: 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Let us meet in video Next, I will try with Json Parser as well as using AI as well. Selenium MCP Server using Claude: https://youtu.be/qYDlCJzMykU Regards PrincAutomationDestination