TL;DR: Yes: set TaloTrace, an AI-powered QA testing platform, to run your critical scenarios on a daily or weekly schedule, and it tests the latest build automatically, with no one needing to remember to trigger it. The schedule runs at a fixed daily or weekly time rather than on every commit, so pair it with on-demand runs for anything time-sensitive.
Key Takeaways
Scheduling: TaloTrace can run a Test Plan automatically every day or week at a wall-clock time you choose, in your timezone, without a script or a person starting it.
Always current: a scheduled run always tests the latest finalised build, so a recurring schedule keeps testing whatever shipped most recently.
No brittle scripts: TaloTrace navigates by looking at the screen rather than element IDs, so it keeps working when the UI changes.
Verified before it reaches you: findings are independently reviewed, and each one comes with a recording and the exact time window where the defect shows.
Severity you can shape: findings are rated Critical through Trivial, and you can supply your own severity guidance for TaloTrace's ratings to follow.
Not a CI trigger: today's automation is a recurring schedule plus on-demand runs from the app or API, not a per-commit trigger.
Why Does "Someone Forgot to Re-Run It" Keep Happening?
Many teams already have a regression suite for their critical user flows: checkout, sign-up, the core action their product exists to do. The suite itself usually isn't the problem. The trigger is.
Running it depends on a person remembering to kick it off before a release, and under deadline pressure that step is often the first one to get skipped. The flow breaks in production, and the retrospective finds a test that would have caught it, sitting unrun.
Fixing that means removing the human trigger, not writing a better checklist. Scheduled regression testing is the practice of running a fixed set of critical-flow checks automatically, on a recurring schedule, so passing coverage no longer depends on a person remembering to trigger it before every release.
How Does TaloTrace Know Which Journeys to Test?
You point TaloTrace at your app and, optionally, describe the flow you care about in plain language, for example "complete a checkout". It explores the running app, plans the user journeys worth testing, and drives each one to a verifiable outcome. See how the exploration and planning works in more detail.
Completed journeys become replayable scenarios, so there are no test scripts to write by hand. Scenarios can also be authored from a chat description or written manually when you want full control, and you can declare boundaries TaloTrace stays inside; a flow that would cross one is recorded as blocked rather than crossed.
Completion is proven, not assumed: a goal only counts as done when a machine-checkable predicate is false before the action and true after it, so a screen that already shows the right state cannot falsely pass a scenario. That matters for a regression check specifically, because a suite that reports false passes is worse than no suite at all. Our approach to autonomous exploration covers this in more depth.
How Does TaloTrace Keep Testing the Same Flow After the UI Changes?
TaloTrace navigates by looking at the screen, not by matching brittle element IDs, so a redesigned button or a moved field doesn't break the scenario the way it would break a recorded script. There are no scripts to write or maintain when your UI ships a visual change.
Its interaction range covers taps, typing, scrolling, swiping, long-press, double-tap, drag and pinch, so it can drive the same range of actions a person would. Real actions such as Create, Save and Submit are actually committed, and the resulting screen is read to confirm what changed; only destructive or irreversible actions, like deleting an account or making a payment, are held back.
How Do Scheduled Runs Replace Remembering?
You set a recurring schedule, daily or weekly, at a wall-clock time in your timezone, managed per project and optionally tied to a specific Test Plan. There's no free-form cron, but there doesn't need to be: a scheduled run isn't pinned to a build, it always runs the latest finalised build, so a daily schedule keeps testing whatever you shipped most recently without anyone re-pointing it.
On-demand runs are still there for anything time-sensitive, started from the app or the API, and both paths pass the same credit check before a run starts. If a critical flow needs a login, you save the test account once per project with a role label such as "admin" or "viewer", and a scenario can use the project default account, a specific one, or run with no login at all.
Put together, that's 24/7 continuous testing with no fatigue and no coverage gaps.
What Do You Get Back From Every Run?
TaloTrace separates finding a defect from reporting it: it drives your app, records what looks wrong, and independently reviews each finding before it reaches you. Nothing you see is the raw, unchecked output of the step that produced it.
Results start hidden. A finding becomes visible only when a reviewer approves it, or when the project is explicitly configured to auto-approve, and low-confidence findings are held separately so they can't be released in bulk by a run-level approval. Every run finishes as a Trace: a screen recording, TaloTrace's reasoning, and step-by-step reproduction for each finding, with the time window inside the recording where the defect shows.
Repeated observations of the same defect collapse into a single issue within a run, and a matching candidate in a later run is routed to that existing issue rather than surfacing as new. Findings are rated Critical, High, Medium, Low or Trivial, shown with their internal code (for example "Critical (P0)"), and you can supply your own severity guidance for TaloTrace's ratings to follow. Everything lives in TaloTrace's own issue view by default; exporting to Jira, Linear or GitHub is a per-project opt-in, off until you turn it on, and idempotent, so an already-filed finding gets commented on rather than duplicated. You'll hear about it either way, through an in-app notification feed or email.
What Makes TaloTrace Different?
The mechanism, not the marketing, is what removes the human trigger: independent review before a finding ever reaches you, completion that's proven rather than assumed, and sight-based navigation that keeps working when the screen changes, across three cloud-hosted execution planes: a browser, an Android emulator and an Apple iOS Simulator, chosen automatically from your app's platform with no hardware to provision. See more on why this approach exists.
TaloTrace dogfoods this loop daily on the Growtrics Academy app, its own most-tested product, and measures navigation reliability against a standardised internal benchmark across real apps and real devices. Every run's cost is tracked and visible, so the economics behind a daily schedule are never a mystery. TaloTrace's site reports up to 90% reduction in QA spend, reported by early teams, and 4x more validated bugs surfaced compared to manual QA.
TaloTrace's beta is open now — apply for early access here.
Where Does This Approach Stop?
A recurring schedule is daily or weekly at a fixed time, not tied to individual commits, so it won't flag a specific change the moment it merges; pair it with an on-demand run when you need that. Running the same scenarios across several device or OS configurations at once, the device matrix, is plan-gated: the free trial runs the default profile for its platform, and paid tiers unlock alternate profiles.
For sign-up flows gated behind an emailed or texted one-time code, TaloTrace can use a throwaway inbox or number to receive and enter the code; treat that as a best-effort convenience for getting through the gate, not a guarantee. Sign-in itself is email and password, with free-text instructions you can add for extra steps like an OTP prompt, and a saved password is write-only: it's stored for future runs, never sent back out, and masked out of the run's captured steps and logs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to write test scripts for TaloTrace to test a critical flow?
No. Describe the flow in plain language, or let TaloTrace explore your app and turn the journeys it completes into replayable scenarios. You can also write a scenario by hand or from a chat description if you want full control.
Can a run happen more often than daily?
Recurring schedules are daily or weekly presets at a wall-clock time; there's no free-form cron. For anything more frequent, or right after a specific change, start a run on demand from the app or the API.
What happens after a scheduled run finds something?
Each finding is independently reviewed before it's visible, then you're notified through the in-app feed or email when results publish or something is waiting on a reviewer.
Does this work for flows that require logging in?
Yes. Save a test account once per project with a role label such as "admin" or "viewer", and scenarios can use the project default account, a specific one, or none at all.
Can TaloTrace test both my web app and my mobile apps?
Yes, TaloTrace tests web, iOS and Android through three cloud-hosted execution planes: a browser, an Android emulator and an Apple iOS Simulator, chosen automatically from your app's platform.
Do I see everything TaloTrace observes, or just confirmed findings?
Just confirmed findings by default. Results start hidden, and a finding is visible only once a reviewer approves it or the project is configured to auto-approve.
Getting started
Most tiers on the pricing page are published and can be bought directly, with custom terms available at enterprise scale. If you want to see a schedule running against your own critical flows before committing to anything, apply for early access and bring the flow you're most tired of re-checking by hand.
