Stop guessing. Start testing what matters.

Regression testing is meant to be your safety net. Something changes in the codebase, and your tests make sure nothing important breaks. Yet, over time, features get added, bugs get fixed, new flows get introduced, and the test suites grow. With every change, more tests pile on. What starts as a lean, useful set of tests slowly becomes a never-ending slog for many QA teams. 

Testing happens in a vacuum

This growth consumes resources and slows delivery cycles. Traditional regression testing approaches suffer from several critical limitations:

• Manual test execution drains resources: Even with automation, regression testing remains surprisingly manual-heavy. According to the 2025 State of Software Quality Report, 82% of QA organizations still rely on manual testing. Teams still run manual tests for certain edge cases, brittle flows, or areas where automation hasn't caught up. This alone burns time that could be spent on exploratory work or new feature testing.
• Automation creates its own challenges: On the automation front, building and maintaining test scripts is expensive.  Scripts break, require constant upkeep, and become a maintenance burden. Teams must regularly prune outdated tests to keep suites lean and effective.
• Test coverage gaps lead to production issues: QA teams test based on the requirements. In the real world, users go through specific flows that may not be specified in the requirements, leading to defects leaked to production. This leads to:

• Wasted effort: You end up testing features that nobody uses, while neglecting critical user flows.
• Coverage gaps: You miss bugs in the most important parts of your application, the parts that directly impact your customers and your business.

There’s a better way: Start with user behavior

💡 "The most valuable tests aren’t the ones that hit every possible edge case. They’re the ones that reflect what real users do most often."

That’s the principle behind Katalon TrueTest.

Instead of starting with a test case based on requirements, TrueTest starts with user behavior. It captures how people actually use your application in production.

As users interact with your app, their browser behavior is quietly recorded. It’s secure, lightweight, and doesn’t affect the performance of your application. That raw data is then used to map out the most critical paths or flows that users take.

From there, TrueTest does the heavy lifting. It uses AI to generate automated regression tests that reflect those real-world usage patterns. And as user behavior shifts over time, TrueTest automatically maintains the test cases for you.

How does TrueTest do this? To illustrate, let’s consider an e-commerce website:

1. The development team integrates the TrueTest code snippet in their application.
2. As customers browse, TrueTest silently records actions like navigating to the "Clothing" category, filtering by size and color, adding items to the cart, and completing the checkout process.
3. TrueTest generates user journey flows from this data, showing the most frequent paths customers take.
4. The QA team can then select the critical shopping flows and convert them into automated tests. These scripts can be used within Katalon Studio to enhance the tests by adding verifications or custom logic. 

The shift: Faster and user-backed regression tests

TrueTest fundamentally shifts the mindset. You stop trying to cover every possible path. You start focusing on the paths that matter most. It has real benefits: 

• Less manual effort: TrueTest handles the heavy lifting of test generation and maintenance.
• Lower costs: You test less, but test smarter. No wasted runs or flaky tests.
• Faster feedback loops: Auto-generated tests run as part of CI, catching issues as soon as they appear.
• Confidence in coverage: You know the top user flows are covered. Because they came straight from production.

You move from slow, requirement-based testing to testing what matters to your business, backed by data. It actually helps you improve your test coverage and keep things running smoothly without slowing your team down. 

As software development continues to accelerate, the gap between traditional regression testing approaches and modern delivery demands on QA teams will only widen. With more and more teams embracing AI in tools like TrueTest, testing moves away from a reactive, assumption-based process toward a proactive, data-driven process. And this AI-augmented delivery allows QA teams to finally focus on what they are good at: ensuring a seamless user experience.