About recus
Recus is a hosted autonomous QA tool. You paste a website URL, and it opens the site in Chromium, scrolls to load lazy content, lists every interactive element from the accessibility tree and drafts a product brief ahead of any testing. It then applies QA methods per element, such as submitting empty forms, edge cases in validation, XSS probes, happy-path runs and UX checks, without you writing the tests.
Each test executes in its own new browser tab, recorded on video with a Playwright trace, and before and after screenshots go to a vision model that returns pass, fail or warning with a plain-language description and a suggested fix. After each click it compares the live accessibility tree to capture fields and menus that appear only after an interaction. The team reviews and decides what ships. An early-access waitlist and demo are offered, and a sample scan can be viewed without signup.
Key features
- Autonomous exploration from a pasted URL
- Per-element tests including XSS probes
- Fresh Chromium tabs with video and traces
- Pass, fail or warning results with fixes
- Finds elements revealed after interaction
- Visual bug reports for review
Good fit for
- Teams running sanity checks before every deploy
- Getting a first-pass test sweep without writing scripts
recus: questions and answers
- What is recus used for?
- Recus is an AI QA agent that explores a web app from a pasted URL, runs its own tests in real browsers and returns bug reports with evidence. It is a good fit for teams running sanity checks before every deploy and getting a first-pass test sweep without writing scripts.
- Is recus free?
- Yes. recus is free to use.
- Is recus open source?
- No. recus is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Testing & QA category, open-source options include QA Wolf CLI, Playwright and Apache JMeter.
- What are some alternatives to recus?
- recus competes with QA Wolf, mabl and Testim.
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