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SAN MATEO, Calif., September 20, 2021 -- Applitools (https://applitools.com/) announced its inclusion in new research published by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) entitled, "Disrupting the Economics of Software Testing Through AI." According to the report, Visual AI has the highest impact on software testing as compared to other available applications of AI technology in the market today. As the first ever in-depth research report on the impact of AI on automated testing, the report found organizations reliant upon traditional testing tools and techniques fail to scale to the needs of today's digital demands and are quickly falling behind their competitors. The report identifies critical factors that hinder software engineering and DevOps teams including the escalating costs of quality control, and growing complexity associated with the increasing release velocity, number of smart devices, operating systems, and programming languages. As such, EMA Research examined the impact of six real world scenarios of traditional test automation practices.

Applitools, provider of a next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, announced the Applitools Holiday Shopping Hackathon. The holiday themed contest provides developers, quality assurance (QA) professionals, and test automation engineers with a fun, real-world scenario that shows how next generation test automation cloud and Visual AI can help online retailers deliver perfect apps to make the most of the holiday sales season. Each participant competes to win prizes as they spend roughly two hours to test the functional and visual quality of the "Applifashion" retail app and make sure it is impeccable ahead of the busy online holiday shopping season. Holiday e-commerce sales totaled $167.8 billion in 2019 according to the National Retail Federation. This year, 96% of retailers expect online holiday sales to increase.*

In the 1980s, Software Testing was performed manually by all the organizations. Then, at the beginning of the 1990s until around 2003, the first usage of test automation came into existence by using sophisticated tools called as Test Automation Tools. Over the period from 2004 till 2009, multiple tools started evolving and open-source projects, which are developed by test enthusiasts, started becoming very popular and many people started to adopt new tools and strategies till the last decade and of course until today. The future of Test Automation is going to revolutionize the way the test automation happens today. Artificial Intelligence will be on its peak and many organizations will start adapting the AI-based test automation tools for their testing.

According to the report, AI is now the number one strategic enterprise IT investment priority in 2018. Applitools developed the first and only AI-powered image comparison technology that mimics the human eye and brain to streamline testing of web and mobile applications. The Visual AI engine only reports differences that are perceptible to users and reliably ignore invisible rendering, size and position differences. The algorithms can instantly validate entire application pages, detect layout issues, and process the most complex and dynamic pages. With tens of thousands of users across more than 300 customers, test automation engineers and developers have used Applitools Eyes to perform more than 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations.

It is estimated that AI-enabled tools alone will generate $2.9 trillion in business value by 2021. The stats speak for themselves. AI clearly follows the motto "go big or go home". This explosive growth of AI in different sectors of technology is also beginning to show its colors in software development. Shawn Drost, co-founder and lead instructor of coding boot camp'Hack Reactor' says that AI still has a long way to go and is only impacting the workflow of a small portion of software engineers on a minority of projects right now.

When I look back at my career in test automation, there are three distinct periods, or "waves" that come to mind. The first wave is filled with some good old-fashioned vendor tools like WinRunner, Silk Test, and QTP. In my eyes, these solutions started it all and set the stage for future testing automation innovations like Selenium. Selenium began the second wave of test automation, focusing more on developers and programming best practices when creating automated tests. But truth be told–in the quiet times when they think no one is listening–you can hear testers whispering the same curses they did about vendor tools: flaky tests and maintenance driving them crazy. The current buzz these days is around AI and Machine Learning.

It's no surprise implementing DevOps is tricky. What is surprising is the growing number of companies turning to artificial intelligence to help make things go more smoothly. Just in the last few weeks, startup Harness.io began offering a continuous delivery as a service platform for developers that uses machine learning to monitor an application and roll it back as necessary. And another new company, Applitools, is also offering an AI-powered, cloud-based approach for test automation. Torsten Volk, managing research director for hybrid cloud, software-designed data center, machine learning and cognitive computing at Enterprise Management Associates, based in Boulder, Colo., said when implementing DevOps, the hurdles to an average developer pushing out code are quite challenging, and using AI and machine learning could simplify things dramatically.