NYSE-listed automation and AI software company UiPath said it has launched a new platform called UiPath Test Cloud, calling it “a new approach to software testing that uses AI to amplify tester productivity across the testing lifecycle, designed for efficiencies and cost savings.”
Gerd Weishaar, general manager and senior vice president of testing products at UiPath, said the solution enables quality assurance to use agentic testing, equipping professionals with AI agents such as an autopilot and testing agents built with Agent Builder to act as collaborative partners throughout the testing lifecycle.
In augmenting testers with AI, businesses can enable faster time to market, improve production stability, and deliver higher-quality software to customers, he added.
Weishaar stressed manual testing and test automation with legacy tools is costly, slow, and resource intensive.
In fact, one study found up to 25 percent of IT spend is dedicated to quality assurance and testing. Test Cloud represents a shift toward AI-augmented testing, focusing on collaboration between people and AI agents to enhance the complete testing process.
It is designed to address both technical and personal challenges faced by testers in an increasingly complex software development landscape.
“Traditional testing is recognized by CIOs and CTOs as the biggest bottleneck to delivering new innovations.”
– Gerd Weishaar
In a detailed statement the New York-headquartered automation company explained that UiPath Test Cloud introduces agentic testing to quality assurance, engineering, and testing teams at any organisation via autopilot for testers.
“It is an out-of-the-box agent that harnesses a broad collection of built-in and customizable AI to accelerate the testing lifecycle, including agentic test design, agentic test automation, and agentic test management,” the firm said.
The platform also includes an agent builder, a toolkit for building custom AI agents tailored to unique testing needs, giving teams flexibility to create exactly what they need, when they need it, according to their own specifications.
According to a study by IDC that was commissioned by UiPath, organizations using Test Cloud have improved test efficiency by 36% and doubled the throughput of delivering new features as well as reduced outages by 50 percent and troubleshooting time by 93%.
For example, Cisco is cutting its manual testing efforts nearly in half with Autopilot, freeing up valuable time for its testing teams to focus on challenges that benefit from human creativity, strategic thinking, and decision making.
“Agentic testing marks a new era for companies to advance an area of their business that is still stubbornly manual and time intensive,” Weishaar said.
“Testing teams engage interactively with AI agents that act like partners in collaborating, supporting, and working in tandem with testing professionals around the clock across the entire testing lifecycle,” he concluded.
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