GitHub Actions for automated testing: what your green CI isn't telling you
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Testing is the tax on your velocity.
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Your team ships 3x faster. QA didn’t keep up.
Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code made development 3x faster. QA is still where it was two years ago. Every sprint, the gap grows. Testing becomes the reason you can’t release on Friday.
02
Playwright tests break faster than you can fix them.
You tried. You wrote tests. They broke when design changed a button. Your engineers spent a week fixing selectors instead of building features. That’s not a testing strategy. That’s a tax.
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Hiring a QA engineer costs $150K. And takes 3 months.
By the time you find someone, onboard them, and get coverage, you’ve shipped 30 releases untested. Most teams just ship and hope. You know how that ends.
We built Bug0 so you don't have to choose between speed and confidence.
AI writes the tests and keeps them working. A human makes sure nothing slips.
From plain English to CI/CD in 7 days. Zero test code.
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AI test generation
Describe a flow in plain English or upload a screen recording. Bug0 converts it to end-to-end test steps you can edit and run. Zero Playwright syntax required.
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Self-healing execution
Tests adapt when your UI changes. 0% flake rate. Every run produces video, logs, and AI analysis. Runs in the cloud, on every PR.
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Human-verified results
A dedicated QA engineer (forward-deployed engineer) reviews failures, files bugs with repro steps, and gates your releases. AI speed with human judgment.
Bug0 vs the alternatives.
In-house QA hire
Other managed QA
Bug0
How tests are created
Manual scripting
Manual or record-and-replay
AI-generated from plain English
Time to coverage
3–6 months
2–4 months
7 days (100% critical flows)
When UI changes
Tests break. Engineers fix.
Tests break. Team fixes.
Tests auto-heal. 0% flake.
Annual cost
$150K+
$48K+
$30K ($2,500/mo)
Test engine
Custom scripts (owned)
Proprietary. Locked in.
Open-source (Passmark)
In-house QA hire
How tests are created
Manual scripting
Time to coverage
3–6 months
When UI changes
Tests break. Engineers fix.
Annual cost
$150K+
Test engine
Custom scripts (owned)
Other managed QA
How tests are created
Manual or record-and-replay
Time to coverage
2–4 months
When UI changes
Tests break. Team fixes.
Annual cost
$48K+
Test engine
Proprietary. Locked in.
Bug0
How tests are created
AI-generated from plain English
Time to coverage
7 days (100% critical flows)
When UI changes
Tests auto-heal. 0% flake.
Annual cost
$30K ($2,500/mo)
Test engine
Open-source (Passmark)
Built for teams shipping 10+ deploys a week.
Numbers, not promises.
7 days
Critical flows covered
0%
Flake rate (tests auto-heal)
$150K+
Saved vs in-house QA hire
200+
Engineering teams
SOC 2
SOC 2 certified
What engineering leaders say.
“We plugged Bug0 into our CI and had our critical flows covered within a week. Like having a proactive QA engineer reviewing every deploy.”
Karim VarelaCTO, Space Runners
“Bug0 is the closest thing to plug-and-play QA testing at scale. It's helped us catch multiple bugs before they made it to prod.”
Steven TeyFounder, Dub
“Bug0 gives us the speed of AI-native automation with the accuracy of human QA. We stopped worrying about flaky tests entirely.”
Jacob LauritzenHead of Engineering, Legora
“We'd been putting off test coverage for months. Bug0 had our critical flows covered in under a week. No scripts, no maintenance burden.”
Tomer BarneaCo-Founder, Novu
“We used to skip regression tests before releases because they took too long to maintain. Bug0 runs them on every PR now. We haven't shipped a regression in three months.”
Mohak SinghDirector of Engineering, Bridgetown
From plain English to full CI/CD coverage.
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Day 1: You describe your flows
Write what to test in plain English. Upload a screen recording. Or paste a video of your user flow. Bug0's AI turns intent into structured test steps.
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Day 3: Tests are running in CI
Bug0 generates self-healing tests and plugs them into your CI pipeline. When your UI changes, tests adapt automatically. No broken locators. No flaky reruns.
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Day 7: Full coverage. You stop thinking about QA.
Every critical flow is tested on every deploy. Your forward-deployed engineer reviews failures and files bugs with video, logs, and repro steps. You ship. Nothing breaks.
Why we built Bug0
Frequently Asked Questions
An AI testing platform that writes, runs, and heals your end-to-end tests. Plus a forward-deployed engineer who verifies every failure, files bugs with video and repro steps, and gates your releases. $2,500/mo flat. Everything included. For teams that prefer self-serve, Bug0 also offers Studio starting at $250/mo.
Most teams have 100% of critical user flows covered in 7 days. Larger apps take 1–2 weeks. Full app coverage in 4 weeks. Results start in your first week. For self-serve Studio users, you can have tests running in CI in about 10 minutes.
$2,500/mo flat for a dedicated QA engineer plus the full AI platform. That saves $150K+/yr compared to hiring an in-house QA engineer ($130–150K salary + benefits + tooling + infra). Month-to-month, no annual contracts. Bug0 also offers a self-serve Studio plan from $250/mo for teams that want to run tests themselves.
They join your Slack (or Teams, or email), work in your timezone, and plug into your sprint. They can attend standups and planning sessions. Their job: deliver coverage, monitor tests, catch regressions before production, and report back weekly. Think of them as a senior QA engineer on your team, without the $150K/yr hiring cost.
Tests auto-heal. 0% flake rate. Bug0 uses vision-based AI that interprets your UI the way a user does, not through CSS selectors or XPaths. Your dedicated QA engineer monitors every run. You never deal with broken locators.
Your dedicated QA engineer investigates the failure, confirms whether it's a real bug, and files a report with video recording, network logs, console logs, and repro steps. Reports go to GitHub, Slack, or wherever you need them. You get actionable bugs, not noise.
A contractor costs $80–150/hr and still needs your tools, infra, and management overhead. Bug0 gives you the engineer AND the platform for $2,500/mo flat. The AI generates and maintains tests. The engineer verifies results and files bugs. No tooling to buy, no infra to manage, no contractor to manage.
Yes. Bug0 handles authenticated flows, SSO, 2FA, and session management. You provide credentials through a secure secrets vault. Your QA engineer configures auth as part of onboarding. Most teams have auth flows tested within the first few days.
GitHub Actions and the Bug0 app. Tests run on every PR, every commit, or on a schedule. Integration takes about 10 minutes. Your QA engineer sets this up during onboarding.
SOC 2 certified. No codebase access required. Enterprise plans include SLAs, NDAs, and custom security reviews. BAAs available for healthcare customers.
We offer 90-day paid pilots at $2,500/mo. No long-term commitment. Cancel anytime. Studio pilots are also available month-to-month from $250/mo.
Your QA engineer joins your Slack, maps your critical user flows, and starts generating tests. Most teams have tests running in CI and first results within 7 days.
Seven days from now, your QA problem is solved.
From $2,500/mo. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.
15-minute call. No pitch deck. We'll show you how it works for your app.
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