An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
In a world where AI copilots help developers write automated tests, and autonomous AI agents are often building and running their own test routines, many large companies are struggling with a nagging increase in production defects due to a loss of software quality expertise and best practices.
Katalon offers a hybrid testing platform that allows developers and test engineers to validate new requirements, generate and run tests, and take in results, while using Agentic AI to zip together and execute routines from developer code and integration testing frameworks alongside visual and business-driven test design and automation tools.
One of the core tenets of hybrid testing is that development and manual testing teams can keep their existing suites of Selenium and Cucumber tests, API management frameworks, CI/CD configuration checks, synthetic traffic and data, unit and regression tests, and test execution results in a loosely coupled but shared environment, giving the enterprise better insights into the root causes of errors that occur anywhere along software release and refactoring timelines.
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