PaloQA — AI QA Testing & Browser Automation

⚡ Stop writing brittle test scripts. Start shipping verified software with PaloQA. PaloQA is an enterprise-grade browser automation and End-to-End (E2E) QA testing studio engineered for software teams. Describe test scenarios in natural language, record real-user browser journeys, perform visual UI regression audits, inspect live network traffic for schema drift, and analyze web performance — directly inside your Chrome side panel with zero setup. Say goodbye to brittle scripts, flaky element locators, and expensive cloud testing subscriptions. PaloQA combines local-first execution, self-healing element locators, and Chrome DevTools Protocol automation to deliver reliable, zero-maintenance testing directly on your active tab. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 0.0.11 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 🧠 Natural Language Test Composer — Describe any test flow in plain language and let AI build deterministic, multi-step execution plans. • 🔄 Self-Healing Selectors & Dynamic Recovery — Automated multi-tier fallback locators that adapt when dynamic classes or layout attributes change. • 📡 Real-Time API Contract & Drift Interceptor — Intercept background network traffic and validate payloads against OpenAPI schemas and collections. • ⚡ Core Web Vitals & Web Performance Auditing — Measure TTFB, DOM Content Loaded, page load latency, and HTTP status distributions. • 📊 Executive Multi-Tab Spreadsheets & HTML Reports — Download audit-ready spreadsheets and offline HTML reports with embedded lightbox screenshots. • 🌓 Adaptive Dark & Light Modes — Thoughtfully designed interface tailored for engineering and QA workflows. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 CORE CAPABILITIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ 1. AI TEST COMPOSER & DETERMINISTIC REPLAY • Describe user journeys in plain language (e.g., "Add item to cart, apply promo code, and verify checkout total"). • Translates text prompts into step-by-step action plans powered by advanced AI models using your own API keys. • Combines native Chrome DevTools Protocol cursor emulation with intelligent click strategies, guaranteeing reliable execution on modern single-page applications and dynamic web interfaces. 🛡️ 2. SELF-HEALING SELECTORS & ROBUST RECOVERY • Multi-tier element locators: data attributes, accessibility labels, roles, text content, and DOM path hierarchies. • Automatically heals broken selectors when UI markup or dynamic IDs change without throwing script errors. • Safe CSS escaping handles complex selector formats containing slashes, colons, brackets, and pseudo-selectors. 📡 3. REAL-TIME API SCHEMA & DRIFT INTERCEPTOR • Automatically captures live network traffic during browser test runs. • Validate live request and response payloads against contract schemas with instant detection of type mismatches, missing required fields, and unexpected status codes. • Visual payload inspector highlights changes and breaking contract drift in real time. 📸 4. PIXEL-PERFECT VISUAL UI REGRESSION AUDITING • Crawl interconnected pages with automated full-page screenshot capture. • Supports dynamic animations, responsive viewport rendering (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile), and sticky layout elements. • Customizable CSS ignore-selectors mask dynamic timestamps, user avatars, and rotating content to eliminate false positives. ⚡ 5. PERFORMANCE METRICS & CORE WEB VITALS • Measure real-world page speed metrics: Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Ready, Full Page Load, and asset payload weights. • Identify slow scripts, bloated network payloads, and unoptimized assets before releasing updates to production. 💻 6. 1-CLICK TEST CODE EXPORT • Never get trapped in proprietary vendor lock-in. • Convert any recorded or AI-planned browser journey into clean, production-ready test scripts and exported test definitions with zero boilerplate. 🧪 7. SMART DATA INJECTOR & MUTATION TESTING • Import network requests and automatically detect payload parameters. • Inject dynamic variables for random IDs, emails, names, timestamps, and sequential counters. • Execute batch iterations with live latency benchmarks and HTTP status distributions. 📊 8. AUDIT-READY EXCEL & INTERACTIVE HTML REPORTS • Export styled, multi-tab spreadsheets with embedded screenshot previews, step duration breakdowns, and full payload logs. • Generate standalone, single-file HTML reports that run completely offline with built-in Light/Dark mode and screenshot zoom. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW TO GET STARTED IN 30 SECONDS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Click the PaloQA icon in your Chrome toolbar to open the Side Panel. 2. Type your test goal in natural language OR click "Record Flow" to capture live browser interactions. 3. Review and fine-tune the generated step-by-step test plan. 4. Click "Run Test Plan" to watch automated execution right on your active tab. 5. Export audit-ready HTML or spreadsheet reports with a single click. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & SECURITY GUARANTEE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 100% Local-First Engine: Runs locally via Chrome DevTools Protocol and local browser storage. • Zero Data Leakage: Your passwords, session cookies, auth tokens, and DOM traces never leave your machine without your explicit consent. • Automatic Sensitive Redaction: Password fields, authorization headers, and payment details are automatically sanitized. • Strict Privacy Compliance: Zero advertising trackers, zero telemetry profiling, and zero model training on your private test data. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 OFFICIAL LINKS & COMMUNITY SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Website: https://paloqa.palosite.com • Privacy Policy: https://paloqa.palosite.com/privacy.html • Terms of Service: https://paloqa.palosite.com/terms.html • Support & Feedback: hello@palosite.com