False Positive

What is False Positive?

A false positive is a test that reports a problem where none exists—it fails because of a brittle selector, a timing race, or a flaky environment, not because the application is broken. False positives are expensive: they consume investigation time and, worse, they teach teams to distrust and ignore failures, which lets true defects through. Reducing them means eliminating fragility with proper waiting, stable locators, and isolated state. Self-healing selectors specifically target the most common false-positive source: tests that break merely because the UI moved.