# Overview

**Currents goes beyond test reports** to help teams understand test health, reduce CI runtime, and keep large test suites reliable.

SDETs, QA engineers, and engineering leaders—from startups to large enterprises—use Currents to fix CI failures faster, control flakiness, and scale testing across teams and repositories.

## Get started

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## Why Currents

Playwright reports explain a single run.\
Currents explains your test suite over time, and more.

As teams scale testing in CI, they need visibility into debugging traces, flakiness, regressions, and performance trends — and ways to act on them. Currents aggregates test data across runs and repositories, optimizes CI execution, integrates across your delivery stack, and brings test intelligence directly into daily engineering workflows.

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## Explore

Currents is much more than a reporter. Discover the full range of features and capabilities.

<table><thead><tr><th width="280" data-type="content-ref">Debugging &#x26; Analytics</th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="../dashboard/tests">tests</a></td><td>Debug failures with full execution history.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../analytics">analytics</a></td><td>See flakiness, regressions, and trends over time.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../dashboard/test-suite-performance-explorer">test-suite-performance-explorer</a></td><td>Discover problematic tests.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../guides/coverage">coverage</a></td><td>Track test coverage over time.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th width="280" data-type="content-ref">Speeding up CI</th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="../guides/ci-optimization">ci-optimization</a></td><td>Shorten pipelines without sacrificing coverage.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../guides/test-orchestration">test-orchestration</a></td><td>Distribute tests across CI jobs. Faster than Sharding.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th width="280" data-type="content-ref">AI &#x26; Automation</th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="../ai/mcp-server">mcp-server</a></td><td>Give AI agents access to test analytics and execution data.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../guides/currents-actions">currents-actions</a></td><td>Automatically alert, skip or quarantine tests.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../automated-reports">automated-reports</a></td><td>Proactively identify regressions.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../resources/integrations">integrations</a></td><td>Integrate with issue tracking and collaboration tools.</td></tr></tbody></table>