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June 8, 2020

Exit The Test Maintenance Road to Nowhere Through Visual AI

On the Test Maintenance Road to Nowhere? Your Visual AI Exit Is Just Ahead.

Congrats! You just spent hours authoring new tests. They all passed 100% of the time. Now you can start the real work of managing quality. That is until the application under test starts to change. Now, the potential for instability in code-based assertions surfaces, and your maintenance nightmare ensues.

January 17, 2019

Testing in CI

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Automated tests are a key component of continuous integration (CI) pipelines. They provide confidence that with newly added check-ins, the build will still work as expected. In some cases, the automated tests have the additional role of gating deployments upon failure.

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