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Defect Detection

Find issues before your customers do

SmartBear BearQ™ validates your application from an end-user perspective, surfacing defects across user workflows that manual and scripted testing miss.

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The challenge

Scripted tests only know what you know.

Coverage capped by scriptsWhen your team writes a test, it validates a specific path through a specific workflow at a specific moment in time. That's useful, but it's also a ceiling. Scripted coverage is only as broad as the imagination of whoever wrote the tests, and as current as when they were last updated.Defects hide in edge casesMost defects that reach production aren't in the happy path. They live in edge cases, workflow interactions, and gaps between what was documented and how users actually behave.

Defect detection

HOW BEARQ WORKS

BearQ validates how your application actually behaves.

BearQ explores your application the way a user would: discovering how workflows connect, where behavior deviates from expectations, and what happens on the edges.

Workflow-level validation
BearQ validates end-to-end user workflows, not just isolated functions. Defects in workflow transitions and cross-feature interactions are surfaced automatically.
End-to-end user flow testing Cross-workflow detection Transition & state validation
Edge-case detection
BearQ explores beyond the happy path: testing variations and edge cases that scripted suites often don't reach.
Exploratory edge-case validation Unexpected behavior identification Input variation testing Boundary condition coverage
Prioritized defect reporting
Issues are surfaced with context, so your team can quickly decide the priority, advance your workflow, and easily create or link a ticket or test.
Contextual issue reporting Defect prioritization Workflow-level failure detail Actionable next steps
Continuous issue discovery
BearQ can validate continuously, catching regressions as they appear rather than after they ship.
Always-on validation Regression detection Defect trend visibility

IN PRACTICE

What defect detection looks like before a release

  1. Your team prepares to release a new checkout workflow update.
  2. BearQ has been continuously validating the application throughout the sprint.
  3. On the day before release, BearQ flags a workflow failure in the payment confirmation step triggered by an edge case in the address validation logic.
  4. The issue is reported with full context: the specific flow, the failing step, and the expected versus actual behavior.
  5. Your team resolves the defect before it reaches production with no customer impact.

"I can come in in the morning, see tests that were written, and approve regression tests. It's a huge time saver. I would expect it can save 75% of my time."

Lynn Patton
Senior Test Engineer | Follett Software

Frequently asked questions

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