Stop Healing Your Tests: Why Throwaway Automation Fits the AI Era
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Self-healing tests are solving the wrong problem. When a "healer" swaps a broken locator for a "close enough" element, the run stays green, but the test might now be asserting something nobody intended. You haven't fixed the test. You've traded a loud failure for a quiet false positive. Here's the…
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- 2026-09-30 02:11 · DEV Community — AI
Stop Healing Your Tests: Why Throwaway Automation Fits the AI Era