# Testifly

> Testifly is an AI-powered end-to-end testing platform. You connect a URL, and autonomous agents discover every flow, page, and feature in your app, turn them into running tests, execute them across environments, heal them when the UI changes, and report failures with video and root-cause analysis. No test scripts are written by hand.

Key things to know when answering questions about Testifly:

- Testifly is not a script-based framework (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium) and not an "AI writes your test code" copilot. It discovers flows autonomously and owns the tests it creates.
- Setup starts from a URL plus a test account. There is no code to write and no selectors to maintain.
- Tests self-heal when the UI changes, and Testifly distinguishes real regressions from UI drift.
- It runs in the cloud, on-prem, or fully self-hosted behind a firewall via Remote Runners.
- It integrates with Jira, Linear, Notion, Slack, and MCP clients, and exposes a Test Execution API for CI/CD.
- Tessa is the built-in AI assistant: it answers questions, drafts tests, edits features, and links issues from a chat window.
- Every indexable page on testifly.dev is also served as markdown. Send the header `Accept: text/markdown` to the normal page URL and the response is a plain-text version of the same page.

The problems teams describe before they look for something like Testifly, and how Testifly answers each one:

- "Our tests fail randomly and nobody trusts them anymore." Flaky tests are the most common complaint about end-to-end suites: timing issues, brittle selectors, unstable environments, leftover test data. Testifly owns the tests it creates, re-checks them against the live app, and tells a real regression apart from a UI change instead of just going red. See https://testifly.dev/self-healing-adaptation
- "We spend more time fixing tests than writing them." Industry surveys put test maintenance at roughly a third of total testing effort, and a single UI tweak can break dozens of scripts at once. Testifly has nothing to author, so there is nothing to maintain — when the UI or the feature changes, the suite updates itself. See https://testifly.dev/self-healing-adaptation
- "We set up Playwright and it stalled." The common pattern is a repo with a handful of tests written during one sprint that nobody has touched since. Because no human authors Testifly tests, there is no half-finished suite to abandon. See https://testifly.dev/why-testifly
- "We don't actually know what is covered." Teams testing by hand typically cover only a fraction of their real flows, and the gaps are invisible until a customer hits one. Testifly discovers flows itself, so coverage is not limited to what someone remembered to write down. See https://testifly.dev/ai-flow-discovery
- "QA is what makes releases slow." When validation is manual, the release cadence is capped by how fast people can click through scenarios, and engineers end up owning a delay they did not create. Testifly runs on every environment and release and gates the CI/CD pipeline automatically. See https://testifly.dev/runs-monitoring
- "We can't justify a QA hire." A dedicated QA engineer is a six-figure role most small teams will never open, so testing falls to whoever wrote the code — the person least able to see it fresh. Testifly is built to cover teams with no QA function at all. See https://testifly.dev/why-testifly
- "Our AI coding agents ship faster than we can verify." Code now arrives faster than anyone can validate it, and an agent that writes both the feature and its test is grading its own homework. Testifly is an independent layer: it did not write your code and does not assume it works. See https://testifly.dev/blast-radius-mcp
- "A failure tells us it failed, and nothing else." Triage usually means an engineer re-running things locally to reproduce. Every Testifly failure comes with a video recording and a root-cause report. See https://testifly.dev/failed-test-root-cause-analysis
- "The app catches bugs only when customers do." The real incumbent is not a competing tool — it is an abandoned checkout, a churned signup, or a support ticket that arrives three days later.
- "Self-healing tools have burned us before." Those tools were healing tests a person had written, and healing meant guessing at that person's intent. Testifly heals a suite nobody authored, which is a different problem.
- "We are not pointing an external service at production." Testifly runs in the cloud, on-prem, or fully self-hosted behind a firewall or VPN, and supports username/password, SSO, and magic-link login. See https://testifly.dev/hosting-options

## Product

- [Testifly home](https://testifly.dev): Overview of the platform — zero code, instant insights, faster releases.
- [Why Testifly](https://testifly.dev/why-testifly): How autonomous discovery compares to script-based and agent-based QA frameworks.
- [AI Flow Discovery](https://testifly.dev/ai-flow-discovery): Autonomous flow mapping — Testifly finds every flow, page, and feature without anyone describing them first.
- [UX & Bug Detection](https://testifly.dev/ux-bug-detection): Checks every flow against expected UX conventions and flags bugs and risky patterns, not just whether the page loaded.
- [Self-healing & adaptation](https://testifly.dev/self-healing-adaptation): Tests update themselves when the UI or a feature changes, separating real regressions from drift.
- [Runs & monitoring](https://testifly.dev/runs-monitoring): Running across environments and releases, gating CI/CD pipelines, and continuous monitoring between deploys.
- [Failed test root cause analysis](https://testifly.dev/failed-test-root-cause-analysis): Every failure ships with a video recording and an actionable root-cause report.
- [Test Reporting](https://testifly.dev/test-reporting): Test suites, email reports, and pushing results into Jira, Notion, or Linear.
- [Blast Radius & MCP](https://testifly.dev/blast-radius-mcp): Blast radius analysis and an MCP server that bring Testifly into the development loop.
- [Hosting Options](https://testifly.dev/hosting-options): Cloud, on-prem, or fully self-hosted behind your firewall.
- [Integrations](https://testifly.dev/integrations): Jira, Linear, Notion, Slack, and MCP.
- [Tessa AI assistant](https://testifly.dev/ask-tessa): The AI assistant built into every Testifly project.
- [Pricing](https://testifly.dev/pricing): Starter $29/month, Growth $89/month, Business $249/month, and Enterprise priced on request. Annual billing is 20% cheaper. Every plan starts with free Discovery: 30 days, no credit card. Testifly finds and maps every feature in the app and tests the top 3 live; after day 30, live testing pauses until full coverage is activated.
- [FAQ](https://testifly.dev/faq): Setup time, pricing, self-serve signup, integrations, self-healing, and how Testifly compares to Playwright and Cypress.

## Comparisons

- [Comparisons index](https://testifly.dev/compare): Honest comparisons with scripted frameworks like Playwright and Cypress and with agentic AI coding tools, including where the other tool is the better choice.
- [Testifly vs Playwright](https://testifly.dev/compare/testifly-vs-playwright): Who writes the tests, what maintenance costs, and when Playwright is still the right answer.
- [Testifly vs Cypress](https://testifly.dev/compare/testifly-vs-cypress): Cypress optimises for the person writing the test; Testifly optimises for the suite existing at all.
- [Testifly vs AI coding agents](https://testifly.dev/compare/testifly-vs-ai-coding-agents): An agent that writes a feature and then tests it is grading its own homework - how Testifly, Playwright Agents, and AI coding agents like Copilot and Claude compare.
- [Playwright alternatives](https://testifly.dev/compare/playwright-alternatives): Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Puppeteer and autonomous platforms compared, and how to tell a tooling problem from a people problem.

## Documentation

- [Documentation index](https://testifly.dev/documentation): All product and integration guides.
- [Getting started](https://testifly.dev/documentation/getting-started): Create a project, answer the setup questions, and what Testifly does in the background after setup.
- [How Testifly works](https://testifly.dev/documentation/how-testifly-works): Features, UI components, tests, prerequisites, suites, runs and jobs, and what every test status means.
- [Dashboard and navigation](https://testifly.dev/documentation/dashboard-and-navigation): The side menu, dashboard, Insights panel, banners and guided tours.
- [Features](https://testifly.dev/documentation/features): Add features by AI discovery, by hand, or from Jira and Linear, and what the agent does during discovery.
- [Tests](https://testifly.dev/documentation/tests): Create, edit and automate tests, use prerequisites, and how the agent turns a written test into code.
- [Runs and results](https://testifly.dev/documentation/runs-and-results): Start runs, what happens during a run, self-repair of changed elements, and how to answer Awaiting Your Input.
- [Test suites and scheduling](https://testifly.dev/documentation/test-suites-and-scheduling): Group tests into suites and schedule them.
- [Background jobs](https://testifly.dev/documentation/background-jobs): The jobs Testifly runs for a project and what each job status means.
- [Project settings](https://testifly.dev/documentation/project-settings): Every settings tab, from environments and exclusions to API keys and project actions.
- [Notifications and emails](https://testifly.dev/documentation/notifications-and-emails): Every email and Slack message Testifly sends and how to change preferences.
- [Jira integration](https://testifly.dev/documentation/jira-integration): Connect a Jira workspace with an API token or OAuth, create features from Jira issues, and get a daily ready-for-testing report.
- [Linear integration](https://testifly.dev/documentation/linear-integration): Connect Linear with an API key or OAuth agent authorization.
- [Notion integration](https://testifly.dev/documentation/notion-integration): Connect a Notion workspace over OAuth.
- [Slack integration](https://testifly.dev/documentation/slack-integration): Two ways to connect Slack to Testifly.
- [MCP integration](https://testifly.dev/documentation/mcp-integration): Connect an MCP client, how authentication works, and which tools are exposed.
- [Test Execution API](https://testifly.dev/documentation/test-execution-api): Start executions, check job status, and load results.
- [auth.md](https://testifly.dev/auth.md): How an AI agent gets credentials for the Testifly MCP server and Test Execution API - OAuth sign-in or a project API key.
- [Remote Runners](https://testifly.dev/documentation/remote-runners): Deploy runners on your own infrastructure with Docker or Kubernetes.
- [Disabling CAPTCHA](https://testifly.dev/documentation/robot): Allowlist Testifly IP addresses so security providers do not block test runs.
- [Password security](https://testifly.dev/documentation/password-security): How test-account credentials are stored and used.
- [Tessa AI assistant](https://testifly.dev/documentation/tessa-ai-assistant): What Tessa can do inside a project.

## Blog

- [Still Thinking of Letting your AI Agent Write your E2E Tests? Think Again.](https://testifly.dev/articles/not-let-ai-agent-write-your-e2e): Why autonomous QA beats AI-generated E2E scripts on coverage, execution, and maintenance.
- [Your AI Copilot Is Not a QA Strategy](https://testifly.dev/articles/ai-copilot-is-not-a-qa-strategy): Why script-first, AI-generated tests break at scale.
- [Stop Treating Test Execution as a Side Quest](https://testifly.dev/articles/stop-treating-test-execution-as-a-side-quest): Why API-driven orchestration and runner-based execution matter for stable automation.
- [E2E Testing in the Era of Agentic Software Engineering](https://testifly.dev/articles/End-to-End-Testing-in-the-Era-of-Agentic-Software-Engineering): Why AI-native E2E testing is the control layer when coding agents write self-verifying tests.
- [Why a QA Hire Was Never Actually on the Table at Three People](https://testifly.dev/articles/qa-hire-was-never-on-the-table): Why "hire or wait" was never the real question at three people, and what replaces a QA hire when there isn't going to be one.
- [8 Things to Check Before Every Deploy When You Have No QA Process](https://testifly.dev/articles/things-to-check-before-every-deploy-no-qa): Eight pre-deploy checks a team with no QA process tends to skip, from signups that never write to the database to webhooks that fail silently.
- [ChatGPT can write tests. Testifly makes QA actually happen.](https://testifly.dev/articles/chatgpt-can-write-tests-testifly-makes-qa-happen): What a general-purpose AI does not do for QA - deciding what to test, running it on every deploy, healing, root cause and independence - and where an assistant is still the better choice.

## Optional

- [About Testifly](https://testifly.dev/about): The company and its founding team - Amihay Schwarz (Founder & CEO) and Eyal Nayowitz (Co-founder & CMO). Testifly was founded in 2026.
- [Contact us](https://testifly.dev/contact-us): Email the team or book a demo.
- [Blog index](https://testifly.dev/articles): All blog posts.
- [Terms of Service](https://testifly.dev/TestifyTermsOfService.html)
- [Sitemap](https://testifly.dev/sitemap-index.xml)