UI testing should help teams ship with confidence. But for many teams, getting automation in place still takes more work than expected.
Tools like Selenium and Playwright are powerful and flexible, especially for teams with dedicated test automation resources. But getting started often means setting up a framework, writing scripts, managing selectors, and maintaining test code as the product changes. As the product evolves, even small UI changes can require updates to selectors and test logic.
That is why we built CueCast.
Instead of starting with test code, CueCast lets teams start with the workflows they already test in the browser. It lowers the effort required to create, maintain, and run UI tests while keeping the execution repeatable and easy to review.
Today, CueCast is available globally.
What is CueCast?
CueCast is an AI-powered, no-code web testing platform for creating and running repeatable UI tests.
You record a workflow directly in your application, just as a real user would. CueCast captures those actions and turns them into structured, editable test steps that can be replayed in a real browser.
From there, your team can update tests visually, organize them by project, run them individually or on a schedule, and review step-level results when something fails.
CueCast also combines multiple locator candidates, CDP + DOM execution, and AI-assisted failure analysis to make recorded tests easier to maintain over time.
The goal is simple: make web testing easier to get started, and help teams expand test coverage without building and maintaining a complete test framework.
Create tests from real user workflows
Creating a test in CueCast starts with the application itself.
Open your product and use it as a real user would, like clicking a button, entering text, or submitting a form. CueCast captures the actions and turns them into editable test steps.
This makes it easy to automate workflows such as login, form submission, checkout, permission checks, and other critical product paths. These are often the same flows teams manually verify before every release. With CueCast, they can become reusable regression tests instead of repeated manual work.
Built for reliable replay
Recording browser actions is easy. Keeping those tests reliable over time is harder.
CueCast does not rely on a single selector captured during recording. It stores multiple pieces of information about each element, including semantic attributes, page structure, text, and component context.
During replay, CueCast evaluates the available locator candidates and chooses the one that best matches the current page. This makes tests more resilient when the UI changes slightly, or page data looks different from the original recording.
CueCast also uses browser-level interaction through Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) as its primary execution path, with DOM-based fallback when needed. Together, these mechanisms help reduce failures caused by normal product changes.
Keep tests easy to maintain
Products change, so tests need to change too. In CueCast, tests are stored as structured steps rather than script files, making them easier to update over time.
You can edit individual steps, change input values, update assertions, adjust waits, or add new steps when a workflow changes. If only part of the workflow changes, you can re-record just that section instead of rebuilding the entire test.
Tests can also be organized by project and group. This gives teams one place to manage test cases, execution history, and supporting information as the regression suite grows.
Run tests and understand failures
A test is only useful if it can run regularly and tell you something what goes wrong when it fails.
CueCast supports individual runs, batch runs, and scheduled test plans. Teams can run a single workflow during development, execute a group of regression tests before a release, or schedule critical flows to run automatically.
Each run records the status of every step, execution screenshots, and the exact point where a test failed. When something goes wrong, the team can start with the failed step and see what the page looked like at that moment.
CueCast also uses AI to help analyze failures. It can review the failed step, execution result, and page context to suggest what may have happened and where to investigate next.
This helps reduce the time spent figuring out whether the application changed, the page was in an unexpected state, or the test itself needs an update.
Add flexibility with AI Steps
Most regression tests should follow a predictable path. But some workflows include actions that are difficult to express as a fixed click, input, or selection.
For these cases, CueCast provides AI Steps. You can describe an action in natural language, and CueCast analyzes the current DOM to determine how to perform it.
For example:
Select a random value between 16 and 24.
AI Steps are useful for dynamic scenarios where fixed actions are too restrictive. The main test remains structured and repeatable, while selected steps can use AI when more flexibility is needed.
How CueCast fits into your testing stack
CueCast does not need to replace the tools your team already uses. Selenium and Playwright remain strong choices when you need complex test logic, deep customization, or full control over your automation infrastructure. Browser recording tools are useful for quickly capturing actions, debugging flows, or generating basic scripts.
CueCast sits somewhere different: it is designed to turn real workflows into tests that teams can continue to run, maintain, and manage over time.
| CueCast | Selenium / Playwright | Browser Recorders | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Record a real workflow | Set up a project and write tests | Record browser actions |
| Test creation | No-code, structured test steps | Code-based | Recorded actions or generated scripts |
| Maintenance | Edit steps, assertions, inputs, and waits visually | Maintain code, selectors, and dependencies | Usually edit or re-record individual flows |
| Execution / Reporting | Single, batch, and scheduled runs, and reports in one place | Often requires additional infrastructure or integration | Mainly local or lightweight replay |
| Failure analysis | Step details, screenshots, and AI-assisted diagnosis | Logs, traces, screenshots, and manual debugging | Basic logs or recorded steps |
| Replay reliability | Multiple locator candidates, CDP execution, and DOM fallback | Depends on selectors and test architecture | Usually relies on recorded selectors |
| Best for | Maintainable no-code regression testing | Highly customized test automation | Quick recording, debugging, and simple flows |
The right approach depends on the team and the use case. Teams that need highly customized automation may still prefer Playwright or Selenium, while CueCast can cover repetitive regression workflows without adding more test code to maintain.
The approaches can also work together. CueCast can handle high-frequency critical workflows, while code-based frameworks remain available for scenarios that need deeper engineering control.
A more affordable way to scale UI testing
Compared with some UI testing platforms, which can cost hundreds of dollars per month, CueCast is designed to be more affordable not only when you start, but also as your test coverage grows.
Teams can start with a free plan, then move to paid plans as they need more test cases, runs, members, and history. This makes it easier to expand regression coverage without seeing testing costs grow too quickly.
Here's a quick price comparison between CueCast and other testing platforms.
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| CueCast |
Free: $0/month with 1 seat Plus: $29/month with 3 seats Pro: $99/month with 10 seats |
| BugBug |
Free: $0/month Core: $119/month Pro: $219/month Business: $659/month |
| Katalon |
True Platform: $70/seat/month Enterprise: $180/seat/month True Automation: $200/seat/month |
For startups, lean QA teams, and product teams, CueCast offers a lower-cost way to scale UI automation while still supporting real browser replay, scheduled runs, team collaboration, and failure analysis.
Who is CueCast for?
CueCast is especially useful for teams that want more regression coverage without turning every UI test into an engineering project.
That can include QA teams with limited automation resources, product teams that regularly verify critical workflows, startups that ship frequently, operations teams testing internal applications, and engineering teams that want to reduce repetitive manual regression work.
If someone on your team still clicks through the same workflows before every release, those flows are often a good place to start.
Turn a real workflow into a repeatable test
UI automation does not always have to start with a framework or a blank code file. It can start with a workflow your team is already testing today.
Run it once in CueCast. Turn it into a reusable test. Run it again before the next release, and when something fails, see exactly where it happened.
CueCast is now available globally.
Try CueCast with one of the workflows your team still checks manually and turn your first real user flow into a repeatable regression test.
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