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One Year of AI Driven Testing – What We Learned
One Year of (real) AI Driven Testing – What We Learned Appvance introduced the first level 4 autonomy for software testing in September 2017. By now thousands of test runs have been accomplished covering millions of test steps, all fully created by AI. No recording or scripting, just machine learning. It’s not magic…but it…
Dilbert Tackles Software QA!
Dilbert Tackles Software QA! What does it mean when test scripts show up in a Sunday comic??? This Dilbert comic appeared nationally in October 2018: Dilbert has covered many diverse topics over the decades of comics. But test scripts??? Of course, the comic is meant to be funny. But the punch line is “I…
How Appvance Used AI to Successfully Deliver Level 4 Autonomy
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…InBlog
5 Levels of AI Testing Autonomy
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…
The AI Testing Hype Machine
The AI Testing Hype Machine In the past year we have seen a handful of startups get funded claiming they use AI for testing. But when testers actually got their hands on the tool, they found nothing more than a first generation scriptless recorder. Some had helpers and some a new language…but in the end,…
AWS + AIQ = 99% less $ mobile load testing
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…
5 Criteria for Script Generation Tools
Testing teams have several alternatives for manually creating scripts. Most date back years, some are platform specific, some open source, with Selenium remaining the benchmark for most test engineers, notwithstanding that it has fallen way behind the curve. Appvance’s entrant is the Appvance IQ Test Designer, a modern IDE that enables ultra-high productivity when creating,…
5 Hallmarks of Superior Load Testing
Load and performance testing is something you can’t crowdsource, or shouldn’t anyway. After all, crowdsourced load testing would look a lot like DDoS, which is something SecOps wouldn’t appreciate. Nope, load testing is only feasible via automation, as Mercury Interactive showed twenty years ago with LoadRunner. But, what about now? Well, Jeff Bezos made…