Bringing AI in Testing: A CEO’s Role in Handling This Shift

How CEOs Think???

With AI, you can now think the unthinkable.

Development today is at warp speed. Hourly, weekly, monthly releases are the new norms. This demand for rapid pace of development and quality assurance puts an onus on the CEOs and decision makers. 

C-suite leaders need to recognise that AI is the essential difference that will help them not only tackle a wide range of challenges but also help them keep their firm competitive, lucrative, and resilient. 

Applications are becoming too complex for the traditional testing methods. They are time consuming and lack necessary new-age technological skill sets. Scalability to changing requirements is nil, it’s slow and also incurs high capital costs such as expenditure on hardware, software, maintenance, and hiring the right resources.

Leadership demands vision! What if you could test what you want when you want? What if you could discover defects early on? What if that helped you release new products frequently? And what if you could do this all day, every day!
According to the IBM research survey, over 3,000 CEOs ranked IoT, cloud computing, and AI as the top three technologies expected to help deliver results.

The CEO’s Role – Think What AI and Innovation Bring to The Table!

With Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies, CI/CD model, Agile, and DevOps practices being used by companies across all domains, the push for high-quality product release through rapid release cycles are at an all-time high. 

AI can assist leaders in staying one step ahead in the competition and be resilient to market volatility. As a CEO, you need to invest in solutions that help you scale with agility and overcome the typical traditional testing bottlenecks. 

Here are the top 5 actions of CEOs that will help them improve testing:

A Right Partner – Testing at Speed with Webomates

Webomates is the key to unlocking the innumerable AI Testing benefits! More and more companies are acknowledging the axiom of AI Testing and are working diligently to reap its benefits.

1. Power Your Strategic Agility with Shift Left Testing

Expecting to develop a ‘zero-defect’ product is over zealous. But expecting to predict a defect/performance glitche and resolve it – that’s totally possible! 

Shift–left testing allows you to enjoy the best of both worlds – test your application right from the beginning and also have a high–performing application at the same time. It is a continuous endeavor in collaboration from development and QA teams. By testing early and often, Shift Left Testing mitigates risks and eliminates surprises by moving the testing towards the early stages of application development. The goal here is to test each feature the development team develops and provide quick defect data so that they can fix it.

By rethinking testing and seeing it as something that should occur not only in production environments but also at an earlier stage of the software delivery chain, organizations can ensure ROI of the time and energy that their software delivery teams put in. It helps you get past the roadblocks with which they’ve traditionally struggled as they attempt to embrace the Agile and DevOps practices.

2. Think Cloud, Develop in Cloud, Test in Cloud

The past year has taught us the importance of being truly agile and digital – the ability to go from being a global workforce to remote working with no hiccups. If you are a CEO, you already know what the cloud can do for your business in a post-COVID-19 world. 

Webomates innovation tools like Defect Predictor present an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate defect prediction and resolution. Even amid the darkest pandemic-disrupted moments, businesses could go to market with its releases faster while offloading all the testing responsibilities to Webomates.

3. Embrace the Perks of on-Demand Testing Services

Today’s applications are large, complex and interconnected systems. An error in just one module of an application can have ripple effects that can cause the entire application to fail, unwanted downtime, and even negatively impacting productivity. You can run a complete spectrum of tests to ensure your system’s performance, security, and usability. 

Continuous testing helps you to identify errors that might otherwise be invisible in large software systems and helps to avoid the costs of business disruption.
Regression testing helps you with selecting the right test cases, determining the testing frequency and types of regression required to be carried out –

• Full Regression in staging environment – Tests every build and results are delivered within 24 hours
• Overnight / modular test suites Regression in Integration environment – Tests specific module-level changes and integrations with results delivered within 8 hours.
• CI/CD Regression / mini test suites in Developer environment – Tests module based sub-set of test cases with results delivered in 15 minutes to 1 hour.

Webomates has an IoT lab setup for functional and Usability testing. The automation framework has capabilities to support IoT Automated testing, which adds support for cross platform and cross device testing.

Performing Security testing, Exploratory Testing and Performance Testing will help you find potential vulnerabilities, prevent any malicious attacks and safeguard your application by making the system hack proof.

Our UI testing strategy enables us to reflect any changes to your application’s UI as updated test cases within 24 hours. Various UI Testing tools and different UI frameworks called the Galen framework are used for visual testing of applications for UI verification.

4. Ensure Regulatory Compliance and be Audit Ready

Webomates CQ portal’s reporting and auditing capability provides your teams with an auditable trail, enabling you to be audit ready and have all artifacts in place. 

With every new release, Webomates CQ verifies the quality of the build. You can get the required approvals for the product on the basis of these auditable reports.

5. Reap the Benefits of Test Optimization

“Right tests at the right time, in the right way!” has been a mantra within Webomates. It helps optimize the test efforts. 

AI systems are ideal for determining the area to test as well as the method to test and to failover.

In Step 1, you identify the exact test cases that are modified due to that change and run only those cases. In Step 2, you determine the ideal method for executing a test case. You have the flexibility of using Manual testing or crowdsourcing.

Your Application + Our AI Testing = 7 Key Impacts Delivered!

The right tool can help you reinvigorate and accelerate the success of your automation journey! You need a collaborator who can understand your testing requirements and provide you with intelligent testing solutions and the business benefits that AI brings.

Take The Next Step

• Explore our AI Testing tools and services to reduce error-prone manual testing with patented AI Defect Predictor tool
• No Code. No Script. Low Touch. AI automate your application in just 3 steps.
• To know more on our Shift Left Testing, download the whitepaper.

To find out more about what Webomates Intelligent Testing services can do for your business, get In touch with us today.
Please click here and schedule a demo, or reach out to us at info@webomates.com

Tags: Automation Testing, intelligent testing, Regression Testing, TaaS, Testing as a service