Root Cause Analysis
The systematic investigation that traces a failure back to its underlying cause rather than just its symptom.
What is Root Cause Analysis?
What is Root Cause Analysis?
Root cause analysis is the discipline of digging past a failure's surface symptom to the true underlying cause, so the fix addresses the real problem instead of patching over it. For a failing test, that means determining whether the culprit is a genuine regression, a flaky timing issue, a changed selector, or a broken environment. Rich diagnostics—traces, screenshots, videos, and logs—make this fast and factual rather than speculative. QI's failure analysis surfaces likely causes, and its healing engine resolves the common case where the root cause is merely a shifted UI element.