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Learn how Agentic AI, named a Top Strategic Trend for 2025 by Gartner®, is transforming automation with intelligent agents capable of autonomous decision-making.

Gartner® Top Strategic Trends of 2025

Learn why SDETs struggle with selectors as complex web applications evolve, and how agentic AI solutions can simplify testing for all.

SDETs and Selectors: A Love-Hate Relationship

This article explores the importance of AI-driven testing in safeguarding today's software-reliant world, highlighting real-world incidents that expose the vulnerabilities of traditional testing methods. It emphasizes how AI can enhance efficiency, adapt to changes, and ensure fairness, making it crucial for building reliable, robust and ethical software systems.

Why AI-Driven Testing is the Key to Safeguarding Our Software-Driven World

Inflated test management counts in traditional automation frameworks create hidden costs and inefficiencies, underscoring the need for a shift towards quality-focused, AI-driven testing that prioritizes effectiveness over sheer test volume.

Test Management Count Is Inflated: Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Traditional Test Automation

Learn about the evolution of web complexity, examining how quality assurance and testing practices have adapted from the early days of static pages to today's sophisticated digital ecosystems powered by AI.

The Evolution of Web Complexity: How Quality Has Adapted

Explore the challenges individual contributors face in assessing the ROI of AI-driven automation solutions, as traditional tools are surpassed by more intelligent systems.

The Difficulty of Gauging AI ROI as an Individual Contributor

Learn about the role of a test architect in modern software development and how they empower organizations with strategic planning, expertise in automation and testing, and leadership in technology adoption and team mentorship.

The Essential Role of a Test Architect in Modern Software Development

We're engineering a cultural transformation within the tech sphere that aligns cutting-edge AI with the nuanced needs of human-driven businesses.

Breaking the 'Salesy' Stereotype: Leading the Charge in AI with EQ and IQ

Learn how continuously evaluating and improving software testing triage processes help organizations prioritize and resolve issues to maintain competitive advantages.

Triage Your Tests

The integration of Functionize technology with the expertise of our certified architects from Solution Architects Group, LLC promises immediate impact and efficiency.

Functionize + Solution Architects Group, LLC Strategic Partnership

A reliable testing environment is essential for successful software development, but there are various factors that can potentially disrupt its stability. Functionize Test Cloud provides a comprehensive solution for managing your test environment with superb efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration.

The Importance of a Stable Test Automation Environment

This article explores the most important QA metrics in software development that help address any issues with the software before it goes out into the market, as well as assess how customer requirements are being met throughout the development stages.

10 Key KPIs Driving Continuous Improvement in QA Teams

Functionize Test Cloud and Google Cloud Platform: a game-changing partnership that is redefining automated software testing. We explore advanced AI integration, robust security, cost-efficiency, and seamless integration. This is the future of testing.

How Google Cloud Platform Powers Functionize Test Cloud

Learn about end-to-end and integration testing, how to determine the most effective strategy for your project, and how each approach plays a pivotal role in creating robust, reliable applications.

Battle of Testing Strategies: End-to-End vs. Integration Testing

Discover why it might be time to rethink assigning testing tasks to your engineers. Dive into the benefits of a dedicated QA team, and how it can elevate your product's quality and efficiency.

Are Your Engineers Testing? Think Again.

Automated tests helps companies not only save costs and improve efficiency but also ensure that they are delivering the best possible product to their customers.

Why Democratizing Automated Testing is a Smart Move in a Down Economy

Our Deep Learning series concludes with a feature on mission-critical domains. Learn more about how mission-critical operations are leveraging deep learning to benefit from adaptive decision-making, scalability and efficiency.

Learning about deep learning: Applications in Mission-critical Domains

Part 2 of our Deep Learning blog series explores the transformative potential of transfer learning and reinforcement learning techniques. Learn about real-world applications and how these techniques can optimize decision-making and drive innovation.

Learning about Deep Learning: Transfer Learning & Reinforcement Learning, part 2

Deep learning encompasses neural network architectures and generative models, which are key concepts in this field.

Learning about Deep Learning: Neural Network Architectures and Generative Models

Digital transformation is a collective effort, and it is impossible to achieve success without collaborating with stakeholders across the organization

How to Build Stakeholder Buy-In for Digital Transformation

Learn whether a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) is appropriate for your QA team and the benefits it will provide if your organization establishes one.

Is it time for your organization to establish a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE)?

5 absolutely essential books on Machine Learning for any level

The Best Books to Learn About Machine Learning in 2023

AI/ML models require cloud servers to optimize their performance. In this post, we will dive into the reasons why AI technology necessitates the use of cloud servers and the advantages that can be anticipated.

Why AI/ML Testing Needs Cloud Infrastructure

Learn about the various online test data generation tools that will help you generate data for test cases.

8 Online Test Data Generators

A look at some of the most common frustrations, dislikes and challenges faced in QA by software testers, and solutions to ease such difficulties.

The 5 Most Common Issues in Software QA that Annoy Testers

Boost software quality and resilience by moving defect detection as early in the workflow as possible.

The Cost of Finding Bugs Later in the SDLC

Learn about the common challenges and benefits of user-based feedback in the design, development and testing phases of software development projects.

Incorporating User Feedback Into The Testing Process

The benefits of diversity in software testing teams that include people with various backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and skill sets.

The Importance of Diversity in Software Testing Teams

Learn why it is common for bugs to appear in clusters, and what teams can do to help minimize this occurrence.

Why Do Bugs Appear in Clusters?

A look at the advantages and disadvantages of Selenium wrappers, and how Functionize differs from them with its unique AI/ML-first approach to testing.

The Fundamentals of a Selenium Wrapper

Learn how non-coding testers can apply their technical skills to the QA process, from using no-code tools to understanding product and business requirements.

Low-Code: Apply Your Technical Skills Even If You Don’t Know How To Code

A look into the evolving and increasingly important role of QA in organizations big and small.

The New Role Of QA

Here’s a rundown of 5.3 release highlights including loops & conditionals, neural net, extension actions, SMS send, and element miner.

5.3 Release Highlights

The Shadow DOM is notorious for making Salesforce test automation nearly impossible. Find out how Functionize uses machine learning to break through the Shadow DOM.

Breaking through the Salesforce Shadow DOM

Functionize is a great fit for Test Project users looking for alternative options. Read on to learn why Functionize is the best solution to replace Test Project.

Migrating from Test Project into Functionize

Many organizations are not able to hire QA teams. In these cases, you can still accomplish quality by enabling business and technology teams with the right tools.

Software Testing For Organizations Without a QA Team

In sprint automation is an approach that is the most in tune with the core philosophy that governs workflows like Agile and DevOps.

In Sprint Automation

Here’s a recap of release highlights including expressions, role based access control, audit log, learning mode, and input encryption.

Recent Release Highlights - August 2022

Despite economic unpredictabilities, AI solutions can help produce long-term gains, and bring major benefits to IT organizations.

Implementing AI Solutions in a Down Economy

A closer look at parallel execution, which enables modern QA teams to speed up the testing process and improve efficiency.

What is Parallel Execution?

A deep dive into smoke vs. regression testing, including common myths, basic functions, when, and how to use each for optimal software testing.

Smoke vs. Regression Tests

Learn why shorter tests are considered a software testing best practice, for faster, more resilient, and reusable test cases which positively impact your overall testing strategy.

Why Shorter Tests Are Better

Understanding the seven principles of software testing help testers become more focused and enhance overall testing strategies.

7 Principles of Software Testing

See our favorite books for software quality leaders focused on testing strategies to organization-wide quality initiatives.

Top Book Recommendations For Software Testing Leaders

Leading a successful QA team will help you build a culture of quality. If you help the team members feel wanted and valued, they will help you deliver success.

Leadership: making your people feel part of something bigger

There is a myth that testers can and should only focus on testing. But that overlooks the high-level skills they bring that can transform your whole team.

Testers aren’t just testing

Functionize believes every day should be Earth Day. Protect our planet with environmentally friendly testing practices. Learn about how Functionize tests green.

How Functionize Tests 'Green' on Earth Day and Every Day

Modern applications need scalable test automation. Strategies such as using a test cloud, driving down test debt and intelligent test automation will help scale your automation practice and drive efficiencies.

Strategies to Scale Automated Test Suites

Software development teams are managing many moving pieces to meet the needs of rapid development of modern applications. Here are 4 common pitfalls that cause software projects to stall or fail.

4 Reasons Why Software Development Projects Stall or Fail

Labor shortages around the world are driving companies to adopt different automation technologies, but does automation really solve the problem?

Can automation fill the void left by labor shortages?

Functionize offers multiple ways to run a test including Live Execution, Live Debug, and Headless Run. Learn which is best suited for your everyday needs.

3 Ways to Execute a Test Using Functionize

Lack of synergy between developers and testers can be detrimental to any development project. Similarly, lack of synergy between project management and test automation tools can add needless hurdles to important workflows.

Developers vs Testers: Turning The Friction Into Action With Jira

A look into the disproportionate advancements in DevOps technologies vs. software testing tools, and how a modern testing solution like Functionize can bridge that gap using AI and ML.

Software testing has been outpaced by evolution of Cloud & DevOps technology

Understand the factors that make scripted test automation slow, and how modern platforms like Functionize prevent testing teams from falling into costly maintenance cycles.

Why Scripted Test Automation Is Slow

Every application needs localization to maximize their return on investment in new markets. Functionize’s data-driven localization testing can help you do this effectively.

What is localization testing and why is it important?

Dark launching means silently launching a new feature. This lets you test the feature with a small subset of users before releasing it widely.

What is dark launching and how do you use feature flags?

Functionize is a world-leading AI-powered test automation platform. But this is only possible because we collect a vast volume of data. Read on to learn why.

What data does Functionize collect, and why?

Test debt comes in various forms, but by far the most important one to solve is test maintenance debt. Functionize’s philosophy is that test maintenance shouldn’t really exist.

Can you afford to not pay off your maintenance test debt?

Software developers can rely on sophisticated tools and methodologies that help them be more productive. But QA is lagging behind and it really shows.

Why is QA lagging behind software development in innovation?

People often believe the most important thing in test automation is creating as many tests as possible. But as we show, this can have unexpected consequences.

Faster test creation sounds great, but does it solve your real problem?

80 years ago, people were discussing AI, yet it only became reality in the past few years. This was mainly thanks to the power of the cloud as we shall see.

Cloud. The transformative technology that enabled AI.

History is littered with catastrophic software failures. Often they happened because of poor testing and QA. Learn how bad it can get when your QA fails.

Boom! When QA (could have) saved the day!

Jira is great at issue tracking but is it all you need for test management? Here, we show why you need to look beyond Jira for a complete test solution.

5 Reasons Why You Should Supplement Jira for Testing

QA managers have a tough job. Here, we explain how using an AI-powered test automation tool can transform things for the better.

What AI test automation means for me as a QA manager

End-to-end testing is a must for modern applications. Here, we explain why this requires you to create e2e testing tool stacks to achieve the best results.

Why you need e2e solutions for e2e testing

AI test automation can transform testing for your company. But you might feel worried about your career. Here, we show why you needn’t stress about it.

AI test automation sounds great, but what’s in it for me?

Serverless computing helps you deliver applications without a conventional backend. But how do your DevOps team test them and ensure they keep working?

Serverless computing — a testing concept for DevOps

You want the fastest, smoothest GTM for your new product. But shipping a buggy product isn’t an option. So, you need a cloud-first testing methodology.

How a cloud testing methodology enables faster GTM

Machine learning and AI have made quality assurance more sophisticated. QA leaders need to know what to prioritize and how to empower their teams.

5 Questions the VP of Quality Needs to Ask

Functionize 5.0 is here! This release brings new features to boost DevOps productivity and overall performance. It also enables new integrations, such as Jira.

5.0 Release Highlights

Automation and machine learning have made shift-left testing easier. But which adds more value, unit testing or end-to-end testing? Read on to find out more.

Beyond the Testing Pyramid – Are Unit Tests Enough?

Test debt is a real problem for most QA teams. It eats your capacity and results in less and less productive testing being done as I explain here

Test debt explained. Why your team has no spare test capacity.

Transitioning to a new test framework is a big step for any team. Here, we give you the knowledge you need to successfully transition to AI-powered testing.

4 winning approaches to migrate to AI powered testing

Test engineers focus so much time on test scripts that they often lose sight of the main goal of quality. In this blog, we explore why this is the case.

Rediscovering the true purpose of QA

Data-driven testing simplifies the test process by splitting test logic and test data into separate files. Learn how Functionize enables data-driven testing.

Data-Driven Testing: Why it's not Overkill for Your App

Test automation is a no-brainer for Agile development and CI/CD. But there’s a paradox. The more tests you automate, the less time you have to automate more.

The test automation paradox: how it slows your team down

Test teams often follow the mantra if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Here, we show why this is a fallacy and see how to improve your test automation strategy.

Test automation strategies: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Right?

In the final blog in this series on learning to use Functionize, I look at how I can debug and edit my tests while they are running live

Functionize as a User Part 4: Test Management Through Machine Learning

This is the third part of my blog series exploring Functionize as a new user. Here, I look at the tricky subject of test health and test maintenance.

Functionize as a new user 3: Viewing Test Health Reports

Luddites tried to derail the industrial revolution because they distrusted technology. Here, we see how this distrust can derail your digital transformation.

Luddites, saboteurs, and the real reason people distrust disruptive technology

Functionize’s AI-powered suite of products makes it the modern test automation solution for TestRail. Learn how testers can rapidly increase their automation coverage, save precious time from test maintenance, and scale their tests in the cloud using Functionize.

Functionize: Modern Test Automation for TestRail

Functionize 4.2 is our biggest release yet. Read about all the new features we added to simplify and streamline your automated tests.

4.2 Release Highlights

Using integrations in your Salesforce instance? Here’s why testing is critical.

The Functionize testing manifesto set out our motivations for revolutionizing test automation. Now we are proud to publish a new version.

The Functionize manifesto for modern test automation

Workday testing solved the easy way with Functionize

Applications like AI platforms are considered to be complex web applications, so it is no surprise that testing them is a real challenge.

Use case: testing complex web applications with Functionize

The software market is highly competitive, so you need any edge you can get. QA productivity may be a blocker. We show you how AI improves it.

How AI helps you improve software testing productivity

Testers like to argue about which is easier, API testing vs. UI testing. Here we separate fact from fiction.

Myth or fact: API Testing is Easier than UI Testing

We love incorporating customer feedback into our product. Key enhancements include Azure AD Integration, nested folder navigation, and selector snippets.

Functionize 4.1 Release

Discover the top AI trends in testing, with the changing QA landscape, growth of continuous testing, the rise of shift left and a lot more!

Top AI Trends in Testing for 2021

What are the benefits of cloud-based testing? One benefit is continuous access to shared resources. Click to learn more.

Advantages of Cloud-Based Automated Software Testing

ML revolutionizes testing, that makes self healing tests possible. But what happens if tests self healed incorrectly? You need to use “Force Fail.”

How "Force Fail" can help with false negatives in testing

To do the testing properly, work, and focus on finding potential gaps and conflicts. Learn here about how test engineers do the test process.

Which Part of the Testing Process is the Most Time Consuming?

Check out what’s new in Functionize 4.0, our most exciting release to date! Our intelligent test automation solution took a major leap forward with customer requested enhancements and new features powered by machine learning.

What’s New in 4.0

We asked experts about the challenges of manual testing to automated testing. Read on to learn what you’re up against with this transition.

What are the major challenges that a manual testing team will face if they transition into automated testing for the first time?

Selectors allow automated tests to interact with your UI. However, they cause most test failures. Here, we show why Functionize has moved beyond selectors

Selectors—Down, but not completely out

You sometimes can identify markers for an imminent project meltdown. But you have to pay attention to early warning signs. Here’s what to look for.

How to recognize the warning signs of a project crisis

Perhaps you are a skilled technologist. But beware: If your personality is as scintillating as a dish rag, you could jeopardize your open source projects.

How personality traits affect the open source development process

What is Postman tool? Postman is a handy tool that can help you do full stack integration testing of your APIs. Learn how to use it!

The Postman Always Pings Twice

Gartner says hyper-automation is one of the top 10 trends of the year – but what does that supposed to mean?

What is hyper-automation?