Regression protection

Every new change should
respect everything that already works.

As your team ships faster with AI, checking that existing functionality still works becomes increasingly important. Qarmiq verifies critical product behavior, catches regressions, and helps keep your checks current as the product evolves.

Why it matters

The faster you build, the more you have to protect.

A change to checkout can affect invoicing. A change to authentication can affect account access. The impact isn’t always obvious from the code diff. Without regular verification, problems can survive until a customer encounters them.

01

A change is bigger than its diff

Coding agents now make changes across files nobody opened, in minutes. A reviewer can read what changed, but not everything it touched. What needs re-checking is no longer something a person can hold in their head.

02

Tests are pinned to the screen, not the promise

A script that clicks a selector fails when a button moves, whether or not anything is broken. Regression time goes on repairing tests to learn nothing, while the failures that matter wait in the same queue.

Nobody did anything wrong here. It is simply what building faster does, and the cost falls on whoever has to answer for what still works.

Why tests break

Traditional tests can break even when your product doesn’t.

Conventional UI tests often depend on selectors, buttons, and page layouts. When the interface changes, tests can fail even though the underlying functionality still works. Teams then spend time repairing tests instead of investigating actual product problems.

How a script suite works How Qarmiq holds it
What it is written against Clicks, selectors and screen layout One plain sentence about what must always be true, and the checks that prove it
When the UI is redesigned Tests fail for reasons unrelated to risk, then get rewritten or deleted The checks hold no UI detail, so they survive. Scripts update themselves when the product still works
What a failure looks like A red build and a stack trace A verdict with cited evidence, the rule it breaks and the steps to reproduce it
Who says it passed The script, judging itself A separate judge, from evidence. A result with nothing cited is inconclusive

None of this is a case against automation. Scripts are fine; they just need something above them that knows what the product is for.

What stays and what’s new

Protect what matters. Review what’s new.

Repeatedly verified checks cover known behavior. Autonomous agents can investigate changes and propose additional checks. Your team decides which new findings become part of the ongoing verification process.

What passed runs first

Proven checks become verified scripts, so each run starts from what is already known and spends the agent’s effort on what is new.

Red lines raise an alert

Mark a scenario as non-negotiable and a failing one opens an alert that closes only once it holds again. Everything else is weighed by a rule across five stability signals.

Nothing changes unasked

New checks, learnings and merges are proposed, never applied. A person accepts or dismisses each one, and a dismissed finding is not raised a second time.

Questions

Questions you’re probably asking.

Why do older regression suites miss new breakage?
A script suite is written against clicks, selectors and screen layout, so it ages with the screen. It fails when a button moves rather than when a promise breaks, and teams spend regression time repairing tests instead of learning whether the product still works.
What stops a Qarmiq suite going stale?
Scenarios state what must always be true in plain sentences, with checks that hold no UI detail. Testers, an autonomous agent and verified Playwright scripts all record results against the same scenario. A script goes first on each run, and when it fails but the product still works, it updates itself.
Who decides whether a check passed?
A separate AI judge rules pass, fail or inconclusive from the captured evidence. An answer that cites no evidence counts as inconclusive, and a script never decides a failure by itself.

Start with the part of your product you can’t afford to break.

We’ll help define the critical behaviors, run Qarmiq against them, and show you how it identifies regressions.

Qarmiq is not self-serve yet. We set each team up directly. Pricing is one flat price per project.