DevOps and testing firm Copado has told QA Financial it has designed and launched an AI-powered test creation assistant.
The launch comes only weeks after the Chicago-based firm rolled out its new testing platform Explorer.
Copado, which is specialised in AI-powered DevOps and testing for enterprise SaaS, said that its new Test Copilot solution is powered by its existing CopadoGPT tool.
Explaining the new testing offering, Esko Hannula, senior vice president of product management at Copado, called the tool “an intuitive way to build precise tests with greater efficiency” and “a powerful way to deliver quality releases at enterprise scale.”
When asked to elaborate, Hannula said the solution was designed for quality assurance (QA) testers and test automation engineers to accelerate the testing process by automating test creation.
“With a simple prompt, it can convert existing tests,” he continued, adding that it can also create API test cases to supplement user interface and end-to-end testing processes.
Demand from FS firms
Copado serves a host of large insurance firms, banks and other financial services (FS) companies, such as trading houses and brokerages. Demand for QA testing within this sector is growing fast.
Finland-based Hannula stressed that “in today’s fast-paced software development landscape, development and testing teams are dealing with several critical issues.”
As an example he singled out industry reports that have found that upwards of 40% of software projects experience time and cost overruns.
“AI that helps create executable test automation scripts will be extremely valuable for QA teams.”
– Esko Hannula
Hannula said Copado designed the product as the firm spotted a clear demand for such solutions in the financial services space, among other industries.
“By eliminating repeated tasks and using AI to automate the test creation process, we are helping release teams work faster than ever before while improving release quality,” he stressed.
“With our AI-powered testing solutions, we are not only accelerating software testing, but simplifying it.”
To support his claims, Hannula referred to a recent McKinsey study, which found that developers can complete coding tasks twice as fast with generative AI, which could lead to a significant increase in the amount of code generated, and thus, much more code to test.
To keep up, QA will also have to leverage AI to speed up their ability to test and validate code, he noted. “AI that helps create executable test automation scripts will be extremely valuable for QA teams.”
Explorer platform
The latest launch comes only weeks after Copado made available a new tool to simplify and streamline testing for Salesforce development teams.
The firm’s new Copado Explorer platform is able to automate a significant part of the testing “process while integrating into the CI/CD pipeline to ensure that testing is a continuous and collaborative part of the software development process,” explained Hannula, senior vice president of product management at Copado.
Hannula, who is based in the firm’s Finland office, called the tool “a significant leap forward in efficient and inclusive exploratory testing for a wide range of users, transforming how development teams approach testing in their Salesforce environments.”
“This approach ensures that all testers can easily contribute to the creation and deployment of effective automated tests.”
– Esko Hannula
For the Explorer platform, Hannula said Copado’s team zoomed in on “the bottleneck between developers and testers by automatically creating test scripts in the background as manual testers perform their daily activities.”
“These test scripts can then be added to regression suites to compress release cycles, expand test coverage, and allow manual testers to focus on urgent or challenging requests,” he continued.
Calling release quality “a leading driver of risk, cost and speed within the software development life cycle,” Hannula said that his team focused on “making it easy to automate the manual testing process, drastically reducing the time and effort typically required in traditional testing methods and improving both release velocity and quality.”
In fact, he went on to say that Copado Explorer’s tool ensures that testers with any level of experience can effectively identify and record findings and report them back to developers.
“It provides developers with the visibility and traceability needed to identify, document and resolve issues faster, so this approach ensures that all testers can easily contribute to the creation and deployment of effective automated tests,” he added.
Hannula concluded by pointing out that integrated annotation and markup tools enhance collaboration by allowing non-technical subject matter experts to provide detailed feedback and insights to QA and development teams.
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