As of 2026-09-24, 90 of the 330 tools in the catalogue document self-healing. Another 49 state it only on marketing pages. For 188 tools, we found no public page that describes it.
What the self-healing fact records
The self-healing fact records whether the vendor's documentation describes how tests repair themselves when the app changes. The fact takes one of three values: documented, vendor-stated or none.
For example, ACCELQ documents self-healing in a support article on adaptive element identification.
By evidence level
Counts across 330 tools as of 2026-09-24:
| Self-healing fact | Tools |
|---|---|
| Documented as present | 90 |
| Documented as not offered | 3 |
| Vendor-stated | 49 |
| Not documented | 188 |
The 3 tools documented as not offered have a documentation page that rules the feature out. The 188 not-documented tools have no public page either way. Not documented does not mean the tool lacks self-healing.
By category
Counts by primary category as of 2026-09-24. Rows are sorted by the documented count, then by category name A-Z.
| Category | Tools | Documented | Vendor-stated | Documented as not offered | Not documented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic end-to-end testing | 54 | 36 | 12 | 1 | 5 |
| Mobile testing with AI | 30 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| Natural-language test authoring | 33 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 11 |
| Test maintenance and self-healing | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Autonomous exploration | 20 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| API testing with AI | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
| AI test management | 29 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 24 |
| IDE and repo test agents | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| MCP servers for testing | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Managed AI QA services | 11 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| Monitoring with AI checks | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Results analysis and triage | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Unit test generation | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| Visual AI testing | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Accessibility testing with AI | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Performance testing with AI | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Session replay testing | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Test data generation | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Testing assistants | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Agentic end-to-end testing accounts for 36 of the 90 documented tools. In the test maintenance and self-healing category, 9 of 11 tools document it and the other 2 state it on marketing pages.
In managed AI QA services, 6 of 11 tools state self-healing only on marketing pages, and 1 documents it.
The capability count is a different number
Tool pages also carry an AI capabilities fact, a list such as test case generation, self-healing and no-code. As of 2026-09-24, 83 tools have a documented capability list that includes self-healing. A further 31 tools include self-healing in a vendor-stated capability list.
The self-healing fact and the capability list are verified separately. We cross-checked the two in the data:
- 82 tools document both.
- 4 tools document the self-healing fact, but their capability list is vendor-stated.
- 4 tools document the self-healing fact, but their capability list does not include self-healing.
- 27 tools have both at the vendor-stated level.
- 1 tool lists self-healing in a documented capability list, while its self-healing fact is not documented.
Why the two can differ
Each fact carries one evidence level and one source. The capability list is a single fact, so every item in it shares that level. If the list comes from a feature page, the whole list is vendor-stated. This holds even when a separate docs page describes self-healing, which is what happens for the 4 tools in the second row.
The capability list also records only what its source page names. A docs overview can list other capabilities and leave self-healing to its own page.
The self-healing fact has a narrower test. It needs a page that describes how tests repair themselves. A capability list can name self-healing without that description.
Where to see the list
The documented self-healing feature page lists the 90 tools whose self-healing fact is documented. Each tool page shows the source and the verified-on date for the fact. Vendor claims about self-healing results stay in the labelled vendor-stated block on each tool page.
Sources
- ACCELQ support: Self-Healing, adaptive element identification
- Tool page: ACCELQ
- Counts come from the catalogue data behind All tools and the category hubs.