Redesign your UI. Refactor your code. Pie's self-healing tests adapt automatically—no maintenance, no fixes, no downtime.
You spend 50% of your QA time fixing tests that shouldn't have broken.
Traditional test automation relies on fragile selectors—IDs, XPaths, CSS classes. They're rigid, brittle, and blind to user intent.
Then AI code generation made it worse. Cursor, Copilot, and Claude ship UI code 10x faster. More code velocity means more UI churn. More UI churn means exponentially more test breakage.
You aren't testing your product. You're testing your DOM structure.
Your QA team didn't 7.5x. Your maintenance burden did.
Contextual Intelligence Replaces Brittle Code.
Selectors are machine-speak. Pie builds a Contextual Knowledge Graph that understands user intent. Our agents analyze your application layer by layer—recognizing what actions accomplish, not what selectors target.
When a user looks for a "Checkout" button, they don't inspect the HTML source code. Neither does Pie. Our agents recognize the button by visual appearance, text label, and proximity to other elements.
Rename the class from .checkout-btn to .cta-primary? If the button looks like checkout, still behaves like checkout, then it is the checkout. Test passes.
await page.click('nav.header > button.login');
// Error: Element not found → Test fails Move the "Login" button from the top right header to a sidebar menu. Traditional test scripts fail immediately. Pie's agents understand the login intent and locate the button in its new position.
Self-healing tests adapt to UI changes. Brittle scripts break on the first rename.
When you push a major UI overhaul, Pie detects the variance and triggers localized rediscovery. The agent re-maps the changed workflow and updates the test definition automatically.
Your regression suite stays green. No emergency meetings. No sprint-blocking fixes.
| Scenario | Traditional Automated Testing | Pie Self-Healing Test Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Button ID Changes | × Script breaks immediately. Engineer inspects code, updates selector, re-runs suite. ⏱ 90 minutes lost | ✓ Agent recognizes button by visual context and clicks it. ⏱ 0 minutes lost |
| Element Moves Location | × XPath invalid. Test times out. Engineer rewrites locator and updates assertions. ⏱ 2 hours lost | ✓ Agent scans viewport, locates element in new position, adapts execution. ⏱ 0 minutes lost |
| Unexpected Pop-up Appears | × Script blocked. Element not clickable. Engineer adds modal handling across all affected tests. ⏱ 3 hours lost | ✓ Agent identifies pop-up, dismisses or interacts contextually, continues execution. ⏱ 0 minutes lost |
| Annual Maintenance Cost | $80K-$150K 15-30 hrs/week @ $100/hr fixing flaky tests | Near-zero Self-healing eliminates selector maintenance |
We know what you're thinking. Can I still test specific attributes?
When a test runs, Pie triangulates using all three layers. If the visual layer shifts, the semantic layer compensates. If the structure breaks, the visual layer takes over. This failsafe system passes valid code and only fails when there are real bugs.
.product-cta-button❌ Element not found: .product-cta-button
❌ Test failed .sticky-purchase-btn✅ Primary action button identified
✅ Purchase intent recognized
✅ Expected position validated
✅ Test passed The button changed completely—but its function didn't. Self-healing automation understands the difference.
"Pie has helped us elevate our level of confidence, and the speed at which we can release new products."
after adopting Pie's self-healing test automation
Point Pie at your staging environment. Change a button. Redesign a flow. Watch tests adapt in real-time.
Most teams deprecate 80% of Selenium scripts within 60 days once they see Pie's maintenance-free coverage.
Complexity doesn't create linear slowdown because tests execute in parallel.
Pie adapts to the new flow structure automatically. You specify what to test, not how to navigate selectors.
Self-healing isn't 100% perfect—but neither are manually maintained selectors that break silently when markup changes. The difference: Pie's errors are caught and corrected systematically, while selector brittleness is an ongoing maintenance tax.