Intent-based generation, not guided recording
In trainer-based tools, every journey exists because someone clicked through it once. That scales linearly with human patience. Testnova generates test cases from your requirements — tickets, specs, or typed sentences — so coverage scales with what your product should do, not with how many sessions someone recorded. Each case is a reviewable object in plain English before it ever becomes automation.
- Test cases drafted from requirements and specs, reviewed by you before automation.
- Scripts grounded in real captured elements, so generation doesn’t hallucinate.
- Autonomous exploratory testing probes flows nobody recorded or wrote down.
- One set of cases runs as browser tests, on real Android devices, and as API checks.
Healing that never hides a bug
Auto-healing is mabl’s signature, and Testnova has the same power with a stricter rule: only environmental drift — a moved button, a renamed field — is repaired, and every repair arrives as a pull request you can read. A genuine defect is never healed into a passing test; it stays red and becomes a bug report with steps to reproduce, expected result, and observed result. A suite that stays green by forgiving real failures isn’t protecting you.
Your tests, in your repository
mabl tests live in mabl. Testnova commits standard Playwright to your own GitHub or GitLab repo as a contractual promise, exports results as JUnit and Allure, gates CI over the REST API, and pushes confirmed bugs to Jira. The platform does the work; the artifacts stay yours.
When mabl is still a fine choice
mabl is a polished, established platform, and teams that want a fully managed enterprise SaaS with guided authoring and quote-based procurement can do well with it. Testnova earns the switch when you want tests generated from intent rather than recordings, an agent that hunts bugs on its own, code you own in the open Playwright ecosystem, and flat pricing published on the site — free to start, then from $99/month.
Frequently asked questions
How is Testnova different from mabl?
mabl authors tests through a guided trainer and stores them in its cloud, with pricing by quote. Testnova generates tests from plain-English intent, adds autonomous exploratory testing for unscripted bugs, commits standard Playwright to your own repository, and publishes flat pricing that starts free.
Does Testnova auto-heal tests like mabl?
Yes, with a deliberate boundary: only environmental drift is repaired, each fix is proposed as a pull request, and a real bug is never healed green — it stays red and becomes a bug report. Healing exists to fight test rot, not to flatter the dashboard.
Can it find bugs that no one wrote a test for?
Yes. Autonomous exploratory testing sends an agent through your app the way a senior tester would work — probing forms, flows, and edge cases — and files what it finds as reviewable bug reports with reproduction steps. Trainer-based tools only check the journeys someone recorded.
What does Testnova cost compared to mabl?
mabl prices by quote, so it varies. Testnova’s pricing is public: free to start, then flat plans at $99, $299, and $499 per month with monthly quota resets, plus pay-as-you-go minutes listed on the pricing page. No sales call is needed to see or start any of it.
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