What Vera is
A complete testing platform, operated in plain English.
Three ways to get a test — all no-code, all producing real Playwright runs with video, traces, screenshots, and results.
Click through your app
Vera captures each action in a live browser and derives a stable selector from a tiered priority ladder — data-testid first, CSS path last, generated classes filtered out.
data-testid → id → name → aria → role → …Write one sentence
The AI reads your live page, maps every interactive element, and writes complete scenarios using selectors that genuinely exist — then runs them to prove they pass. A value guard rejects tests that pass while doing nothing.
“Check the cart, apply a coupon, and check out.”Let it stay green
Broken selectors heal mid-run. Failing tests enter an auto-repair loop — heal, suggest a fix, diagnose — and a fix is only accepted once the test actually goes green. Every repair is recorded for your review.
heal → suggest-fix → diagnose · green-gatedThe full capability index
Every detail, in the box.
No “contact us to unlock” asterisks. This is the whole platform, itemized — small details included, because the small details are where suites die.
Author
- 27 step types — navigate, click, fill, select, hover, waits, asserts, API requests, extract-to-variable, native tap & swipe…
- Data-driven datasets — upload a CSV; each row runs the test with its values as
{{column}}variables. - Real control flow — if / else and loops, with element, URL & variable conditions.
- Human-grade asserts — toast, modal & validation-error assertions that need no selector.
- 6 selector strategies — test-id, role, label, placeholder, text, CSS.
- Reusable flows — share step sequences across tests, inlined at run time.
- {{variables}} — per-project and per-environment, injected into any field.
- Live recorder — tiered selector ladder, streamed to your browser as you click.
- One-click clone — fork a test and tweak the copy.
Generate · AI
- One-sentence suites — the AI reads the live page and proves each scenario by running it.
- Journey crawl — multi-page agentic exploration, bounded by hard caps.
- Value guard — scenarios that “pass while doing nothing” get rejected.
- Self-healing selectors — DOM snapshot → corrected selector → retried → recorded.
- Auto-repair loop — heal, suggest-fix, diagnose — accepted only when the test goes green.
- Bug vs. drift diagnosis — reads your source read-only and classifies the failure.
- AI design review — a vision model flags overlap, contrast & cut-off text in screenshots.
- Auto-configure — proposes base URL, auth & seed commands from your repo; you approve.
- Bring your own key — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or a local CLI.
- MCP server — drive Vera from Claude or any MCP client.
Execute
- 3 real engines — Chromium, Firefox, WebKit. No emulated DOM.
- Real Chrome mode — headed system Chrome to get past bot detection.
- 17 device profiles — iPhones, Galaxies, Pixels, iPads, desktops.
- Multi-viewport runs — one test across desktop, tablet & mobile, each with its own baselines.
- Parallel batches — suites with tunable concurrency, capped by a process-wide browser pool.
- Retries & flake scores — passes-on-retry get flagged; every test carries a 0–100 flake score.
- Quarantine — flaky tests keep running but stop blocking the suite.
- Live progress — step-by-step streaming, even from queued background workers.
- Local agent —
npx vera-agentruns tests on your own machine, next to localhost. No tunnels, no DB access; results stream back to the dashboard. - Selenium / WebDriver engine — point any test at your own Selenium server or grid.
- Native mobile —
.apk/.ipaon your emulator, simulator, or device-cloud account (BrowserStack, LambdaTest) via the agent + Appium. - Suite matrix — expand one suite across devices × browsers, per-cell results in one run.
- Watch mode —
vera-agent watch --affectedmaps every save to the tests it puts at risk and runs exactly those, on your machine.
Evidence
- Video of every run — watch exactly what the browser did.
- Playwright traces — kept on failure, optional on pass.
- Failure screenshots — captured at the failing step.
- Visual regression — pixel diffs against baselines, with approve / reject review.
- Accessibility audits — axe checks with a severity gate you choose.
- Site audit sweeps — crawl your site for a11y, SEO, security headers & Core Web Vitals, per page.
- HAR of failed runs — a redacted network archive you can download — and re-import as API tests.
- JUnit XML export — per run or suite, for any CI dashboard.
- Public report links — tokenized, read-only, rate-limited, revocable.
Operate
- Cron schedules — with run-now and a next-run preview.
- Environments — preview / staging / production, each with its own URL, variables & auth.
- Setup actions — seed data before a run via allow-listed commands or HTTP calls.
- Captured login sessions — log in once via API, reuse the session everywhere; per-role identities.
- Coverage map — critical journeys vs. actual coverage and health, AI-proposed, human-confirmed.
- ROI analytics — trends, flakiest tests, minutes saved.
- Failure clusters — recurring breakages grouped by signature across runs, not scattered as noise.
- Dynamic suites — membership by tag, recently-failed, or flaky — resolved fresh at run time.
- Retention & cleanup — artifact storage that doesn’t grow forever.
- Onboarding wizard — a seeded workspace in minutes.
Collaborate & ship
- Org workspaces — multi-tenant, everything scoped to your org.
- Custom RBAC roles — permission-level control, not just admin / member.
- Invitations & members UI — bring the whole team in.
- Audit log — an append-only ledger of every mutating action.
- Notifications hub — per-event rules to Slack, email & HMAC-signed webhooks, with a delivery log.
- Issue push — send any Vera issue to GitHub, Jira, or Linear with back-links.
- GitHub App — import repos, source-aware discovery, autosync proposals on merge.
- vera-run Action — gate PRs on real failures; flaky counts as a warning.
- CI API — bearer-token REST to trigger, poll, and wait on runs.
Get started
Describe what to test — and let Vera build it, run it, and keep it green.
Point Vera at your app, write one sentence, and watch real tests generate and pass in seconds. Free plan, your own AI key, no credit card.