Playwright AI Self-Healing Locators

Customer: AI | Published: 16.10.2025

I’m enhancing our automated test suite and need a smart layer in Playwright that can automatically repair broken selectors whenever the DOM shifts. The goal is to add AI-powered self-healing for the key UI elements in our single-page web application—specifically buttons, input fields, and dropdown menus. What I’m after: • An extension, utility class, or custom plugin for Playwright that detects locator failures at runtime and intelligently re-maps them using AI or machine-learning techniques. • Support for JavaScript or TypeScript test code, with clean APIs so my team can adopt it with minimal refactor. • Clear strategy for ranking alternate attributes (text, role, CSS, XPath, relative positions, visual cues, etc.) and persisting the new locator back to a central map or JSON/YAML file. • A small reference project: one or two sample tests against any public single-page site that demonstrate the self-healing in action. • Setup instructions and concise documentation so we can adapt the approach to our own repo and CI pipeline. Nice to have: – Lightweight model or heuristic that keeps execution fast. – Compatibility with Playwright’s parallel execution feature and test retries. – Optional logging hook that flags healed selectors for manual review. If you’ve built similar resiliency layers for Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress, I’d love to see a brief demo or code snippet when you respond.