diff --git a/test/maple_test/compare.py b/test/maple_test/compare.py
index dd2eeb1de5255abbcfc28e04968fcaadedb54bf4..3ac77e75801eaf9d12482cee352f1311f52b2354 100644
--- a/test/maple_test/compare.py
+++ b/test/maple_test/compare.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ EXPECTED_REGEX = r"\:{line_num}\:.*\:.*"
 
 SCAN_KEYWORDS = ["auto", "not", "next", "end"]
 CMP_KEYWORDS = ["end", "not", "next", "full"]
-EXPECTED_KEYWORDS = ["scan", "scan-not"]
+EXPECTED_KEYWORDS = ["scan", "scan-not", "scan-auto"]
 
 
 class CompareError(Exception):
@@ -74,9 +74,13 @@ def main():
         pattern_flag, pattern = split_pattern_line(compare_pattern)
 
         info = ""
+        keywords = pattern_flag.split("-")
         if flag.strip() in assert_flags:
             info = "It's a assert, "
         elif flag.strip() in expected_flags:
+            if "auto" in keywords:
+                pattern = r"\s+".join([re.escape(word) for word in pattern.split()])
+                keywords.remove("auto")
             pattern = EXPECTED_REGEX.format(line_num=line_num) + pattern
             if pattern_flag.strip() not in EXPECTED_KEYWORDS:
                 raise CompareError(
@@ -85,7 +89,6 @@ def main():
         else:
             raise CompareError("Unsupport flag: {!r}".format(flag))
 
-        keywords = pattern_flag.split("-")
         match_func = gen_match_func(keywords)
         if "next" not in keywords and "end" not in keywords:
             start = 0
diff --git a/test/maple_test/task.py b/test/maple_test/task.py
index 8cef13ba65548a49de5842cf80fea7b2564eb9a4..b321b1e61a2d0245655d5cf26e8d6a80825c542a 100644
--- a/test/maple_test/task.py
+++ b/test/maple_test/task.py
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class TestSuiteTask:
                 case_files.update(_cases)
             else:
                 logger.info(
-                    "Testlist: {}, ALL-TEST-CASE: {} is contain not test case".format(
+                    "Testlist: {}, ALL-TEST-CASE: {} is invalid test case".format(
                         testlist_path, pattern
                     )
                 )
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ class TestSuiteTask:
                 case_files -= _cases
             else:
                 logger.info(
-                    "Testlist: {}, EXCLUDE-TEST-CASE: {} is contain not test case".format(
+                    "Testlist: {}, EXCLUDE-TEST-CASE: {} is invalid test case".format(
                         testlist_path, pattern
                     )
                 )