In many companies, the’test automation quickly reaches a plateau. The more routes you want to cover, the more scripts you have to write, maintain and repair. As a result, only part of the product is secure, while secondary areas, rare cases and user variations remain largely untested. The test coverage remains partial, and risks accumulate release after release.

This is where the coupling between Saola and classic automation becomes strategic. Not to replace one with the other, but to make them work together in a complementary way.

Saola as a coverage gas pedal

Saola is an autonomous quality platform that learns from actual user behavior, identifies key business paths and automatically generates tests. The promise: less maintenance, more coverage.

Unlike traditional automation tools, Saola does not require testers to manually write each scenario. The tool observes the behavior of real users or test sessions, deduces significant paths, and automatically produces tests based on these observations.

This has several tangible benefits:

• The routes detected reflect actual use, not theoretical hypotheses.
• Coverage naturally extends to poorly documented areas of the application.
• Implementation time is reduced compared with traditional from-scratch automation.
• Test maintenance is lightened because scripts are regenerated from observed behavior.

But no single tool can replace a real testing strategy. The right approach isn't to choose between AI and traditional automation - it's to combine them.

Classic automation: irreplaceable for critical scenarios

Traditional automation is still very useful for high-stakes business scenarios, such as conversion tunnels, payment processes, authentication and complex business rules. These cases require precise, controlled and reproducible coverage for each build.

A classic, well-designed automation script is deterministic: it tests exactly what we've asked it to test, with the precise assertions we've defined. This is a guarantee that AI tools cannot always offer, as they operate by inference and may miss specific edge cases.

The combination is therefore a logical one: Saola covers a lot, while conventional automation covers critical areas in depth.

A different equation for test coverage

At TTC, Saola expands the test area by detecting actual routes. At the same time, our’test automation coverage locks critical scenarios: business rules, non-regressions, CI/CD integrations.

The gain is also economic: instead of maintaining hundreds of fragile scripts, we invest where it makes sense - prioritizing risks, industrializing key processes, rapidly analyzing results.

This hybrid approach enables our customers to :

• Increase functional coverage without proportionally multiplying maintenance costs.
• Faster detection of regressions on the whole product, not just on the main paths.
• Prioritize automation efforts on areas of greatest business risk.
• Maintain high release speeds without sacrificing quality.

Integration into the CI/CD pipeline

Whether it's Saola or classic automation, tests only produce their full effect if they are integrated into the CI/CD pipeline. Automatic execution with every build, immediate detection of regressions and systematic reporting of results are the cornerstones of a mature QA organization.

At TTC, we configure CI/CD integration as an integral part of our proposition. This means that Saola tests and automation scripts are triggered automatically, results are centralized and usable, and the team has permanent visibility of the product's quality status. This same rigor applies to our iOS and Android mobile farms.

In a nutshell

• Saola alone brings speed and wide coverage.
• Automation alone brings control and depth to critical scenarios.
• Both together, well orchestrated: more coverage, fewer blind spots, better risk control at every release.

This is the combination that TTC implements for its customers, adapting the proportion between the two approaches according to the specificities of the product, the constraints of the team and the business challenges. To find out more about our quality strategy, discover our approach to take over an outsourced activity with a higher level of service.