About
No black boxes. You own every layer.
Assrt is built on a simple belief: testing infrastructure should be transparent, portable, and fully under your control.
Why we built Assrt
Testing shouldn't be a tax on engineering velocity.
Teams routinely spend more than half their automation budgets on test maintenance. Selectors break after every redesign. Flaky tests erode confidence in the suite. Engineers start ignoring failures, and coverage quietly rots.
The industry's answer was to move everything into the cloud: proprietary platforms that charge per seat, lock your tests into custom formats, and make it impossible to leave without rewriting from scratch. Your test logic becomes someone else's competitive moat.
Assrt takes a different path. It uses AI to handle the tedious parts (discovery, generation, healing) while outputting standard Playwright code that runs anywhere. The AI is a tool in your workflow, not a black box that sits between you and your tests. Local-first inference means your source code stays on your machines. Open-source licensing means you can audit, fork, and extend every component.
Architecture Principles
Designed for engineers who read the source.
Local-first AI
Run inference on your own hardware or connect to the LLM provider you already trust. Your code and test data never leave your network unless you choose otherwise.
Deterministic output
AI generates your tests once, then the output is static Playwright code. No runtime LLM calls, no flaky AI inference in CI, no surprise costs on every test run.
Git-native workflow
Tests live in your repo as standard TypeScript files. Self-healing updates arrive as pull requests you review, approve, and merge on your own terms.
Progressive adoption
Start with auto-discovery to map your app. Add AI-generated tests one flow at a time. No big-bang migration, no rip-and-replace required.
Open Source
MIT licensed. No CLA required.
The core product is free forever. Not a 14-day trial, not a freemium teaser with crippled features, not “free for individual use.” The CLI, the AI engine, the discovery crawler, the self-healing runtime: all MIT licensed, all in the open repo.
Assrt Cloud adds convenience for teams that want managed infrastructure: hosted dashboards, scheduled runs, and centralized reporting. Assrt Enterprise adds compliance features like SSO, audit logs, and on-prem deployment support. Neither is required to get full value from the tool.
Community contributions are welcome and encouraged. File an issue, open a PR, or fork the project entirely. The test automation ecosystem improves when the tools are open.
See it for yourself.
Install Assrt, point it at your app, and watch it discover every flow worth testing. Takes under five minutes.