How agents took over regression for a building products distributor, cut the effort 60% and caught a shipping defect first

Every quarterly release, the same team walked through the same Supply Chain and Order Management scenarios by hand, and it took close to ten weeks. By the time they finished, the next release was already on its way. The problems that worried them most were the quiet ones, like a status that changes with no document behind it, because nothing in a manual walkthrough makes you stop and look.

Four releases a year at ten weeks each left the team permanently in regression with no capacity for anything else. The defects most likely to reach a customer were exactly the ones a manual walkthrough was least likely to catch.

InfoBeans moved regression to overnight runs from a script library the team builds on release after release instead of starting again each time. When a screen changes and a step cannot find what it expects, a fix is proposed and waits for someone to approve it, so nobody spends the morning chasing a broken run. Real failures arrive already sorted by cause.

The regression cycle went from close to ten weeks to under four, and the team still tests everything in scope. One overnight run flagged an order that had moved to Shipped with no bill of lading ever created, traced to an integration issue and fixed before the release went out, the kind of thing nobody notices until a customer or an auditor asks weeks later. Six weeks came back to the team on every release.