AI in software testing

Introduction

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Challenges with Traditional Automation

Challenges in Test Planning Phase

Challenges in Test Authoring Phase

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Challenges in Test Maintenance Phase
Flaky tests
Script updates with every minor UI change

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Determining test size to ensure quality of a change
Maintaining different test suites/scripts

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An Overview of AI and Machine Learning

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Leveraging AI and ML in Test Automation

Changing the way we identify our web elements

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 Using a weighted set of locators
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Visually locating an element

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Self-Healing Test Scripts
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What if our test scripts were given the ability to do this themselves! That is exactly what artificial
intelligence can do for us.
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Below are various approaches an intelligent framework can follow to self-heal a failing script.
Correct a failing web element locator
Intelligent retry of a failing step
Handle any unexpected error as per the error content

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 Update obsolete test data resulting in error
Replace Repetitive tasks

Below is a list of few of them and how leveraging AI algorithms can help us automate them.
Writing Page Classes

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 Creating data models (classes representing test data for different web forms)
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Smart Regression

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Visual/Snapshot Testing

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 Other Uses of AI in Test Automation
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Spidering
Test Bots doing exploratory testing on an application
Early automation - deriving test scripts from mockups or architecture documents

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Tools Leveraging AI in Test Automation

Testim

Testim is an AI-based UI testing tool. This tool leverages AI and machine

learning to provide fast test authoring and reliable test scripts.

Applitools Eyes

Intelligent Automated Testing Platform Applitools Eyes is

powered by Visual AI, which replicates human eyes and the brain to spot
functional and visual regressions quickly.

Testcraft

Testcraft is a codeless selenium test automation platform for regression

and continuous testing, as well as monitoring of web applications. Their
revolu- tionary artificial intelligence technology eliminates maintenance
time and cost as it automatically overcomes changes in the app.
Test.ai

Test.ai is an AI-powered mobile test automation platform, which scales

and tests thousands of apps in parallel without the need to code or maintain
tests.

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Conclusion

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About the Authors

Prageet Pathak is a Senior Quality Assurance

Lead at GlobalLogic with extensive
experience in Functional and Automation
Testing. Prageet contributes to various
streams through his automation skills in
mobile and web application.

Parvendra Singh is a Quality Assurance

Consultant at GlobalLogic with extensive
experience in Web and API Automation.
Parvendra works to ensure quality throughout the
product engineering life cycle, which includes
Functional Testing, Test Automation and Process
improvements.

Reference
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Vahabzadeh, A. M. Fard and A. Mesbah, “An empirical study of bugs in test code,” 2015 IEEE
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Bremen, 2015, pp. 101-110,
doi: 10.1109/ ICSM.2015.7332456
5 great ways to use AI in your test automation - Joe Colantonio, Founder, TestGuild

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