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    AI & Testing

    How AI is actually changing software testing — what it automates, what it doesn't, and where autonomous testing fits next to LLM-assisted generation and self-healing scripts.

    8 partsUpdated September 2, 2026
    Start with Part 1
    1. 01

      Why Manual QA Doesn't Scale With Modern Release Cycles

      Part 1 of AI & Testing: teams shipping multiple times a day can't rely on manual click-throughs or brittle selector-based test scripts — here's what breaks first, and what autonomous testing changes.

      August 25, 20263 min
    2. 02

      How AI Coding Agents Changed QA

      Part 2 of AI & Testing: AI assistants decoupled how fast teams write code from how fast they can verify it — that single shift reshapes what QA has to cover, how fast, and with what tools.

      August 11, 20264 min
    3. 03

      AI in Software Testing: What Actually Works

      Part 3 of AI & Testing: a grounded look at where AI genuinely helps in testing today — autonomous exploration, maintenance reduction, test generation, triage — and where the marketing outruns the reality.

      August 21, 20264 min
    4. 04

      Autonomous Testing vs. Scripted Tests: What's the Difference?

      Part 4 of AI & Testing: scripted end-to-end tests break the moment your UI changes — here's how autonomous testing agents like Manta take a fundamentally different approach.

      August 18, 20263 min
    5. 05

      Self-Healing Tests, Explained

      Part 5 of AI & Testing: self-healing tests auto-repair broken element locators when the UI changes — how that works, what it actually fixes, the risk of healing over a real bug, and how it differs from autonomous testing.

      August 3, 20264 min
    6. 06

      LLM-Based Test Generation: Useful, With Caveats

      Part 6 of AI & Testing: large language models can draft tests from a description, a spec, or existing code — where that genuinely helps, the failure modes to watch for, and how it differs from autonomous testing.

      September 2, 20263 min
    7. 07

      How to Test AI-Generated Code

      Part 7 of AI & Testing: AI assistants write code faster than anyone can review it — a practical approach to testing code you didn't write by hand, what to check first, where the risk concentrates, and how to keep coverage from falling behind.

      August 17, 20265 min
    8. 08

      Can AI Replace QA Engineers?

      Part 8 of AI & Testing: autonomous testing removes the mechanical middle of QA — regression coverage, script maintenance, flaky-test triage — without touching the judgement that defines the job. Here's what changes and what doesn't.

      August 27, 20265 min