signalDEV Community2026-09-17
AI Agents Are Great at Exploratory Testing. Regression Needs Repeatable Assets.
AI agents excel at exploratory testing - navigating new features, reproducing bugs, and investigating failures via page, code, and log inspection - but they lack the stable path and explicit assertions regression testing requires for comparable, repeatable runs. The author, who builds CueCast (a no-code regression-testing product), argues teams should decide which work stays flexible versus which is valuable enough to codify into repeatable assets, since adaptive agent behavior makes regression results harder to compare across releases.
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