AI Powered tools for test automation is the next buzzing theme in world of automation and surely this theme going to last more than decade as enterprise applications becomes complex and automation suite contains 1000s of test scripts. Biggest advantage which AI Powered tools gives compare to traditional tools like Selenium is ease of maintenance. AI Enabled Tools have in built self healing capabilities, any changes in the application let the tool heal the test scripts and this makes AI powered tools so exciting to look at. Maintaining automation suite with 100 plus test scripts never easy task even for skilled automation engineers as application tends to change with time due to ever changing business requirements and unless self healing capabilities not get added in automation life cycle any significant investment may look not very much promising for your product quality in long run. In this post, I will share some of buzzing AI Enabled tools right now in market but yes there will be strong competition in this area as enterprises look forward to enable AI in automation life cycle.

There is a constant ask from the customer on how to optimize the overall QA (Quality assurance) activities in terms of reducing cycle time, improving quality by reducing production defects, focused testing to get maximum defects in early development phases. Apart from this, most of the customers are adopting digital platforms such as PaaS (Platform as Services) & SaaS (Software as Services) solutions for faster delivery, so how can the QA Team keep pace with development and subsequent validation activities, by automating test case generation. Can we get insights into what areas to automate? Will there be any prediction on what will be the number of defects found, test cases need to be written based on the release magnitude. To get these answers, let's explore the solutions available which we can leverage.

Functionize, a San Jose, California-based startup developing a cloud-based platform that autonomously susses out software bugs, today announced that it has raised $16 million in series A financing contributed by Canvas Ventures. The capital infusion -- which comes after a $2.5 million seed round in February 2018 and brings the company's total raised to $18.2 million, according to Crunchbase -- will be used to "accelerate adoption" of its platform, said CEO and founder Tamas Cser. "Software testing has endured what I term a'QA winter,'" Cser, who cofounded Functionize with Ray Grieselhuber in 2015, said. "This means developers and testers still maintain tests the same way as they did in the early ages of the internet. Functionize's software as a service (SaaS) integrates with DevOps platforms like Bamboo, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline, and leverages natural language processing to enable developers to type out tests in plain English, which it converts into test cases.