Touca's vision for the future of regression testing

We are excited to be sharing Touca with you today: an automated regression testing system that helps engineering teams compare different versions of their software workflows and identify differences in behavior and performance.

We want to reduce the risk of making code changes to mission-critical software components. We think our product can greatly benefit businesses building technologies like medical and financial software, machine learning algorithms, robotics, and autonomous driving systems.

Touca started as a side project when I was working at a medical imaging software company. We had to regularly test our software workflows with thousands of test cases to ensure the safety and accuracy of our product. Our test process was so long and labor-intensive that, sometimes, it took days to gain confidence that a recent code change had no unintended side effects. This long feedback cycle made the entire development process inefficient. Sometimes we decided against making necessary changes to certain components just because it was too difficult to retest them.

This problem is not specific to one company. Most software in industries like finance, medical, AI, and robotics have similarly laborious testing processes and are in the most need for automated regression testing. But there appears to be no clear solution that meets the requirements of these software. So I started Touca, with a mission to make maintaining software 10x more efficient.

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