Introduction
Everyone is using ChatGPT to speed up their work. QA engineers are no exception – they use it to write test cases, draft bug reports, and analyze logs. But copying and pasting between ChatGPT and your test management tool gets old fast.
What if your QA tools understood your project context and could chain AI actions together automatically?
That’s what we’ve built at BetterQA. We call it agentic QA – AI agents that work within your testing workflow, not outside it.
The Problem with Generic AI
When you ask ChatGPT to write test cases, it doesn’t know:
- Your project’s naming conventions
- What test cases already exist
- Your bug history and common failure patterns
- Your team’s testing priorities
You end up with generic output that needs heavy editing. The AI is powerful, but it lacks context.
Agentic QA: AI That Knows Your Project
Our approach is different. We built tools where AI agents have access to your project history – bugs, test cases, executions, and requirements. The more data you have, the smarter the suggestions become.
BugBoard is our AI-powered test management platform. Here’s what makes it different:
From Bugs to Test Cases
Most tools let you generate test cases from requirements. That’s useful, but it misses something important – your bugs tell you where your application actually breaks.
BugBoard can analyze your bug history and generate regression tests that cover those failure points. Found a bug in the checkout flow? The AI suggests test cases that would have caught it, checking if similar tests already exist to avoid duplication.
Screenshot and Log Analysis
Upload a screenshot showing a UI issue. The AI analyzes it against your project context and identifies problems – truncated text, inconsistent styling, incorrect data display. It then drafts bug reports with proper formatting for your team.
Same with error logs. Paste a stack trace, and the AI identifies the likely issues based on patterns it has seen in your project before.
One-Click Bug Reports
After analysis, you can push bugs directly to BugBoard or sync them to Jira. No copy-pasting, no reformatting. The bug report includes steps to reproduce, expected vs actual behavior, and relevant context.
Flows: Visual Test Automation
Flows is our Chrome extension for recording and running automated tests. But unlike simple recorders, it has two features that matter for real-world testing:
Step Builder with AI Variations
Record a flow – login, add item to cart, checkout. Then ask the AI to generate alternative test paths based on that flow. It creates variations you might not think of, covering edge cases and alternate routes through your application.
Self-Healing Tests
Element selectors break. IDs change, classes get renamed, DOM structures shift. When a selector fails, Flows automatically searches for alternative ways to identify the element – by text content, position, or other attributes.
You see a toolbox icon when this happens, showing you what the self-healing found. Tests keep running instead of failing on the first minor UI change.
Export to Your Framework
Tests recorded in Flows can be exported to Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. Use our visual UI for design, then run headlessly in your CI/CD pipeline.
Human in the Loop
Here’s what we believe strongly: AI should suggest, not decide.
When the AI analyzes a screenshot, you review the findings before creating bugs. When it generates test cases, you approve them before they’re added to your suite. When self-healing kicks in, you see what changed.
This isn’t about replacing QA engineers. It’s about removing the tedious parts – the copy-pasting, the formatting, the manual selector updates – so you can focus on what matters: ensuring the product works for real users.
Why This Matters
A developer can run Playwright with an MCP server and get “all tests pass” while the actual application is broken. AI doesn’t click buttons like users do. It doesn’t notice that the loading spinner feels slow or that the error message is confusing.
QA exists to verify that the product works for the people who will use it. Agentic AI makes that verification faster and more thorough – but it doesn’t replace the human judgment that makes testing valuable.
Try It
BugBoard is free to start. Sign up at bugboard.co and we’ll set up a test project for you.
Flows is available as a Chrome extension. Record your first test in minutes, then export it to your preferred framework.
Questions? Talk to our team about how agentic QA fits into your workflow.
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