This week, the Google test blog newsletter was about GTAC, the Google Test Automation Conference. I found this session on AI applied to testing really relevant to: Free Tests Are Better Than Free Bananas: Using Data Mining and Machine Learning To Automate Real-Time Production Monitoring (Celal Ziftci of Google) The session was about Google's assertion framework which... Continue Reading →
Where are we?
When I first Google'd this topic, to my surprise, the top results were not touting test tools using AI to augment the test process, but research papers and books describing the theory of applying AI to software testing. The progress we have recently made in artificial intelligence applications has fascinated me. Particularly in areas touching on the... Continue Reading →
On Becoming Obsolete
An examination of artificial intelligence techniques applied to software testing. The idea of computers testing software with little or no human intervention intrigues me. Software development (and other creative pursuits) is arguably an inefficient and unpredictable endeavour. It's rather difficult to design a perfect system and produce it accurately in one step. We need lots... Continue Reading →
