Hot Sauce Releases - Better Together: Meet Sauce Labs AURA

AI-generated code is growing exponentially. Verified releases are growing linearly. AURA (AI-Unified Release Assurance) is Sauce Labs' agentic AI platform that closes that gap: authoring, running and analyzing tests at AI speed, with human oversight, inside the tools your team already uses.

In this on-demand session, Steven Spadaccini and Trent Yoxall walk one control plane through four doors:

🚪 Door 1 · IDE — Pick a real device, install your app, read install and network logs, and run AI authoring without leaving VS Code or IntelliJ.
🚪 Door 2 · API — Drive the same capabilities from CI, scripts and platforms with the Access API.
🚪 Door 3 · MCP — Give any agent or LLM (Gemini CLI shown) a standardized way to control devices, debug test runs, fix a failing authoring test and pull insights through the hosted Sauce MCP server.
🚪 Door 4 · Signal — Turn real test runs and production signals into explainable insights: evidence, cause, next step.

What you'll walk away with:

• Explainable insights from actual Sauce test runs and production signals
• AI quality engineering where you already work: IDE and agents on public, hosted or local LLMs
• The developer release assurance flywheel: intent → author → run → analyze → feed the next release

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome

0:30 Introduction with Steven Spadaccini

1:27 Introducing AURA: AI-Unified Release Assurance

2:53 The AI code verification gap

4:27 Full-lifecycle release assurance

6:23 What you'll walk away with

8:00 Why this works: real world under the model

9:37 Same control plane, four doors

11:38 Door 1 · IDE: devices, apps and authoring in VS Code

15:32 Door 2 · API: the Access API control plane

20:01 Door 3 · MCP: agents and the Sauce MCP server (Gemini CLI)

23:36 Door 3 · MCP: debugging a test run

28:52 Door 3 · MCP: fixing a failing test with AI authoring

33:38 Door 3 · MCP: insights from job history

39:55 Door 4 · Signal

40:40 Q&A and wrap-up

Try it yourself:
Sauce Labs IDE extension (VS Code / IntelliJ): search "Sauce Labs" in your extensions marketplace
Learn more about AURA: https://saucelabs.com