Who do you want to be? The ex-tester bemoaning the rise of AI and the disappearance of the profession they once knew? Or the expert tester using AI, automation and every available tool to become more capable and valuable than ever?
The testers who should be terrified of AI are probably not the ones people usually talk about. And it’s not about whether you’re a functional, performance, automation, or security tester, or any other discipline. Those categories are basically irrelevant to your survival in the new world.
ALM Octane provides regulated businesses with a single, controlled environment for designing, executing, and evidencing software tests. This helps teams satisfy strict regulatory expectations, whether delivering change via Agile, DevOps, Waterfall or hybrid/Wagile projects.
Evergreen IT sounds simple. Rather than running old systems for years, software is continuously updated. The benefits are obvious: access to new features, no more painful migration projects, better security, and less technical debt.
Agentic testing is one of those phrases that has started appearing everywhere. There’s an underlying assumption that everyone already knows what agentic workflows are, but many don’t. So what does it mean? And more importantly, does it actually matter right now?
The way most people have been using AI for testing is handy for a quick script stub or some test data ideas, but it’s a long way from an industrialised solution. For most teams, “AI testing” still sounds like a future promise rather than a secure, business-ready solution embedded in how their organisation works. It feels like something happening on the fringes, or more realistically, on a tester’s personal chatbot.
Test data has always been one of the slowest, least glamorous parts of software testing. It is rarely strategic work, but it holds everything up. No matter how good your test plan is, weak data can make the whole exercise unreliable.
If you’re looking for a new performance tool or new to performance testing, it can be a tough subject to get your head around. I’ve been involved in the industry for 3 decades, and during that time, it has evolved massively. Increasingly, I talk to people at companies who’ve never
JMeter often becomes the default because it looks free. There is no license fee, and it appears flexible enough to do almost anything. But JMeter’s ease is often a myth. In reality, it is rarely the most sensible or low-cost choice.
In the last main Testing Times edition (April fools day), I argued, quite ludicrously, that testing is a waste of time. That it slows releases, costs money, and ruins everyone’s fun. Judging by the comments, a few readers took it a bit too literally. So let’s be serious for a minute.
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