InfiniTrace: Your QA Knowledge Graph, Finally Walkable
TL;DR: QA revolves around a handful of core entities—stories, scenarios, tests, executions, issues, releases, screens—and they aren’t isolated: stories are verified by scenarios, scenarios by tests, tests produce executions, issues trace back to failures. For most teams, that knowledge lives scattered across disconnected tools, so following the thread means hopping platforms. TestChimp already consolidates those entities and relationships in one place. InfiniTrace (in QA Brain) turns that graph into an infinite board chain: pick a start, fan out to related types, and walk Linked vs Non-Linked entities—including semantic near-misses you can link in place.
The graph was always there
Think about a single question a QA lead asks fifty times a week:
“What actually covers this story—and what didn’t we link yet?”
Or:
“This production event is hot in TrueCoverage. Which tests emit it?”
Or:
“This ExploreChimp journey found a bug. How does it connect back to plans and automation?”
Those aren’t dashboard questions. They’re traversal questions.
Traditionally, answering them meant hopping across Jira, a test runner, a coverage tool, an issue tracker—each holding a slice of the story, none holding the whole graph. TestChimp already consolidates those entities and their relationships in one platform: entity links, scenario comments in SmartTests, SmartTest event emissions, exploration → journey structure, release and run context. The knowledge graph was real. What was missing was a way to walk it.
We’ve been cooking something for that.
Introducing InfiniTrace
InfiniTrace is a horizontal link explorer for your project’s QA entities.
Open QA Brain in the sidebar → InfiniTrace tab.
You get boards—columns—like a kanban that never pretends to be a static board. Each board is an entity type. Board N shows what’s related to the card you selected on board N−1.
- Choose where to start — Story, Scenario, Test, Issue, Event, Release, …
- Select a card → it lifts; floating CTAs show related types you can fan out to
- The next board fills with Linked entities (structural edges)
- Open Non-Linked for top-N peers—often ranked by semantic proximity
- Keep walking. Boards grow to the right. Change a mid-chain pick and the obsolete boards fall away
Deep links encode the whole chain in the URL (?locator=), so “look at this path” is a share, not a screenshot.
Docs: InfiniTrace.
Linked vs Non-Linked is the point
Structural links are great when they exist.
The interesting work often sits in the gap: things that should be linked, or are nearly the same idea in embedding space, but aren’t wired yet.
That’s why every follow-on board has two panes:
| Pane | Job |
|---|---|
| Linked | Ground truth from entity links and type adapters |
| Non-Linked | Candidates—default sort by semantic proximity where embeddings exist |
From Non-Linked you can Link (when rules allow) or Create issue—without losing the chain you were walking.
Some edges stay derived (for example TEST ↔ EVENT from RUM / SmartTest emissions). InfiniTrace shows them; it doesn’t pretend every edge is a manual click.
Why this matters for agents too
Humans aren’t the only consumers of this graph.
The same related-entity query model is what we want agents to use via CLI / MCP later: “give me type X related to entity Y, ordered by this strategy, filtered like this, top N.” InfiniTrace is the human-shaped surface of that API.
If you’ve been following our build-in-public arc—policy-traceable workflows, TrueCoverage, plans-as-code—the theme is the same: don’t hide the structure agents need in chat history. Put it in durable, queryable form.
InfiniTrace makes that structure visible and walkable for people first.
What you can actually do with it today
A few chains that already earn their keep:
- Story → Scenario → Test → Execution — coverage and run health in one pass
- Event → Test — TrueCoverage hotspots meet automation identity
- Release / Test run → scenarios & executions — release triage without ten tabs
- Exploration → Journey → Issues / Tests — exploratory findings with lineage
Filter, search, sort per board. View details in a read-only modal. Jump to the full entity page when you need to edit.
From scavenging to tracing
Dashboards tell you what’s trending.
Atlas tells you where in the product structure something lives.
TrueCoverage tells you what real users do versus what tests cover.
InfiniTrace tells you how the pieces connect—and where the graph is still incomplete.
That’s the difference between staring at metrics and actually following the thread.
Go open QA Brain → InfiniTrace, pick a story or a hot event, and walk it. If the Non-Linked pane surprises you with a near-miss that should have been linked months ago… good. That’s the product working.
Full walkthrough: InfiniTrace docs.