We recently launched GENI, our new AI platform that will change software testing forever.
The Hidden Costs of Software Testing
Let’s talk cash. Software bugs cost businesses billions. A Consortium for IT Software Quality study puts the cost of poor software quality in the US at $2.08 trillion in 2020 alone.
When apps fail, you lose money in several ways:
- Direct mitigation and incremental development costs
- Lost work time
- Missed sales
- Brand damage
- Legal risks
- Extending time to business value
Fixing a bug after release costs 5-15 times more than fixing it during development. And yet, most companies still rely on testing methods from another era.
What’s Wrong With Current Testing?
Manual testing makes up 70% of all end-to-end testing today. Script writing and maintenance eat up to 85% of software quality assurance (SQA) automation resources. This old way of testing has serious problems:
Slow and expensive: A medium-sized app can need thousands of test cases. Manual testing teams can take weeks or months to run them all.
Poor coverage: Most teams test less than 20% of their app’s functions. Why? Because testing everything would cost too much and take too long.
High error rate: Humans make mistakes. Testers miss bugs. Scripts break when the UI changes.
Impossible scaling: As apps grow more complex, traditional testing falls further behind.
A typical enterprise might spend $500,000 to $2 million yearly on SQA. For large companies with many apps, this jumps to tens of millions. Banks, insurance firms, and retailers often spend over $100 million yearly on testing.
GENI: The AI-First Answer
GENI changes all this. Our AI converts English test cases to test scripts at a rate of 100 scripts per hour – 400 times faster than human scripters.
Here’s what makes GENI special:
Full automation: GENI removes humans from the scripting loop. Give it your test cases in plain English, and it creates complete scripts with conditionals and validations.
Bulk processing: While a human works on one script at a time, GENI handles hundreds at once.
Self-maintaining: When your app changes, GENI updates all affected scripts automatically.
Complete coverage: With GENI’s speed, you can test 100% of your app’s functions, not just the 20% most critical paths.
The Numbers: What AI-First Testing Saves
Let’s break down the savings:
Labor Costs
A QA automation engineer costs about $100-120,000 yearly in the US. A team of 10 would cost $1.2 million in salary alone. GENI can replace most of this work.
Time to Market
Faster testing means faster releases. Each week saved in a product release cycle can be worth millions for large companies. If your app generates $10 million monthly, each week faster to market equals $2.5 million in extra revenue.
Bug Reduction
Studies show that bugs caught in production cost 30 times more to fix than those caught during testing. If your company spends $1 million yearly fixing bugs, better testing could save $700,000.
Coverage Benefits
Increasing test coverage from 20% to 90% can cut production bugs by 80%. For a large enterprise, this could mean savings of $2-5 million yearly.
How GENI Works
GENI uses our patented AIQ Digital Twin (including AI script generation) with three custom transformer models and a code generator we built in-house.
The system understands:
- Page layouts
- Natural language test cases
- Visual cues in your app
- How elements relate to each other
It matches these to your application’s Digital Twin, mimicking what a human tester would do but much faster. And your data stays private – we don’t share it or use it to train models.
Who Benefits Most?
CIOs and CTOs
Speed up your digital shift while cutting costs. One CIO told us: “GENI can save us $4.2 million yearly while testing more of our app than ever before.”
Software Teams
Free up your experts for creative work instead of script maintenance. A lead developer said: “It’s critical we get the team orientated to new features and faster build cycles. GENI can help us do that by reducing the time spent triaging issues and fixing bugs and enabling us to allocate more resources to development. We can test in real-time as we go.”
Founders
Beat your rivals with faster, better releases. A startup founder reported: “We’re half the size of our competitors so releasing twice as often with fewer bugs is going to be a real source of competitive advantage.”
Service Providers
Offer next-level software quality assurance (SQA) testing to your clients. A solutions provider noted: “GENI will enable us to grow revenue and reduce cost – we will be able to shift our focus to higher-value work – for both our customers and us”
True AI Solutions Are the Answer
SQA and testing providers are flooding the market with vague claims and partial AI solutions.
Commenting on the need for true AI solutions, Kevin Surace, founder and CEO of Appvance, the creators of GENI, commented: “We learned that True AI – deep AI harnessing multiple LLMs and AIQ for unprecedented learning and autonomous scripting requires substantial knowledge, investment and skill. GENI harnesses Appvance’s 2M lines of code, deep application models, and deep ML/AI models. As a result, GENI is the first 100% pure AI platform that dispenses with the need for legacy scripting and tools.”
The Bottom Line
Software testing has been edging towards an AI-first future. GENI makes that future available today. The result is better software released faster, at a fraction of the cost.
Want to save millions on software testing and accelerate better Enterprise outcomes?
