6 posts tagged with "Regression Testing"

Manual QA doesn't scale with a growing codebase. Every new feature adds another set of paths someone has to click through by hand, and every release means re-checking that nothing old broke. Test automation exists to break that tradeoff — but only if it's built the right way. Here's a practical, in-depth look at what test automation actually involves, where teams typically go wrong, how to think about tooling choices, and what's changed recently with AI-driven approaches.

If a build breaks in an obvious way — the login page won't load, the checkout flow throws a 500, the dashboard is a blank white screen — you want to know in minutes, not after a full regression suite finishes hours later. That's the job of a smoke test.

Regression testing exists to answer one question cheaply and repeatedly: did this change break something that used to work? That's the whole job.

Somewhere along the way, most teams ended up spending more energy keeping the regression suite alive than they spend getting the answer it was supposed to give them. This post looks at why that happened, and at a different approach — DevAssure's O2 agent, which runs regression tests written in plain English instead of Selenium or Playwright code — and what changes when you let an agent decide what to test and how, rather than encoding every decision into a script.

“Software testing is not just about finding bugs, it’s about building confidence"- James Bach, renowned software tester, author, trainer, and founder of Satisfice.com.

Have you ever rerun the same regression suite just to “check the box”? Or silently ignored a failing test because “it always flakes on Mondays”?

Well, you’re not alone!