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Is AURA just another AI testing tool?

No. AURA works at a deeper level to improve release assurance across the full delivery lifecycle. It extracts business intent, generates and runs tests, correlates failures against nearly two decades of execution data, and closes the loop from production errors back into coverage, delivering confidence in software delivery that moves faster while holding up under scrutiny.

How is AURA different from AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot or Cursor?

Generating a test and verifying software are two different jobs. An AI assistant writes the script, whereas AURA runs your app on real devices and tells you what actually happened, remembers which tests fail intermittently, and catches visual issues a model cannot see on screen. With 40% of new AI-assisted code getting rewritten within two weeks and roughly half of AI-generated code failing its first review, generating faster without verification just moves the bottleneck downstream.

Can we build our own test automation infrastructure instead of using AURA?

You can build the infrastructure, but you cannot build the dataset. The infrastructure ties up your most expensive engineers on work that does not differentiate your product. AURA's AI is informed by learnings from more than 8.7 billion test runs over nearly two decades, and an in-house build starts from zero history. Forrester's Total Economic Impact study put the infrastructure savings alone at $1.3M over three years.

Does AURA require changes to existing workflows and tools?

Adoption fails when a tool demands a workflow change. AURA embeds where developers already work: VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot, plus agent access through the Sauce Labs MCP Server, every major delivery pipeline, and full support for Selenium, Cypress, Appium, and Playwright. Nothing migrates.

Can non-technical users create tests with AURA?

Yes. With intent-based authoring, anyone can describe a user journey in plain language such as 'log in, add to cart, check out' and get an executable test across web and mobile, with full code control whenever engineers want it. Test creation runs up to 80% faster, taking teams from ideas to running tests in minutes.