Author: Kevin Surace

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Two new podcasts! AI is maturing in QA, but robots won’t take your job The machine generating 1000’s of real tests with no recordings, no logs, no tracking, no coding. AI arrived in QA in 2017. Did you get on the bandwagon? Why are you holding back? Disappointed by vendors who say “AI” but have

improve coverage

Every day I hear the same question: “how can I improve my coverage with little effort?” Of course, this is a loaded question. What coverage do you mean? There might be (at least) four ways to think about coverage: In the past we defined them this way: So that brings us to modern testing which

appvance extends ai

Appvance Extends AI Test Generation to Native Mobile Apps The first AI based system to automatically test and validate complex native applications SANTA CLARA, CA, September 24, 2019 – Appvance, the inventor and leading provider of AI-based software test technology, announced today the launch of AI test generation for native mobile applications including iOS and

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Appvance Announces Issuance of Seminal AI Patent Patent describes methods to automatically generate valid test cases from limited information SUNNYVALE, CA, February 13, 2019 – Appvance.ai, the inventor and leading provider of AI-driven test automation software announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued US Patent No: 10,204,035 entitled “SYSTEMS,

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Appvance Achieves Level 5 Autonomy for Software QA The first AI based system to automatically test and validate complex web applications Sunnyvale, CA, November 15, 2018 – Appvance.ai, the leader in AI-based software test technology, announced today the launch of Level 5 automation for software testing by delivering AI-driven application validation framework. Eliminating test script

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How Appvance Used AI to Successfully Deliver Level 4 Autonomy When Appvance began working on true testing autonomy we knew there were many directions one could take with machine learning to attack the problem. One direction would use neural nets to scan thousands of applications and build a database of how they work and are

5 levels

  5 Levels of AI Testing Autonomy The driverless vehicle levels were defined by SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) some years ago as a way of defining the actual capabilities of driverless vehicles. Today, most driverless automation is level 2 or 3 (ie Tesla), but Waymo seems to be showing level 4 or 5 capabilities

mobile load

Thanks to Amazon Web Services, driven by Appvance IQ (AIQ), you can save 99% on your mobile load tests. Before explaining how, first some context. Amazon has disrupted industry after industry and is now disrupting mobile device testing. AWS Device Farm, their mobile device cloud, uses immense scale to lower the cost of testing mobile

dev ops

CI/CD Testing Table Stakes taken Next Level Testing is often ignored when talking about agile, CI/CD and DevOps. And yet, testing is often a major bottleneck in these endeavors. To be successful in any of the above, test must be part of the culture, something done continuously at every build. Ignoring testing in CI/CD is

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Appvance.ai Grows Sales 102 Percent and Doubles Its Customer Base Strong Demand for AI Driven Testing Triggers Fast Growth for Software Test Automation Company SUNNYVALE, CA • January 23, 2018: Appvance.ai announced today that sales of its software test automation system grew 102 percent in 2017 over the same period in 2016. The strong growth was catalyzed

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