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Accelerating Software Testing with AI
Modern software teams are under pressure to ship faster without compromising quality. This AI software testing course shows participants how to use AI coding agents and SDKs to design, generate, and...
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Modern software teams are under pressure to ship faster without compromising quality. This AI software testing course shows participants how to use AI coding agents and SDKs to design, generate, and maintain tests more efficiently while preserving test reliability and coverage.
Learners discover where AI adds value in the testing lifecycle, how to supervise AI-generated tests, and how to integrate these tools into their existing CI/CD workflows. Hands-on labs provide practical experience using AI assistants and SDKs to create unit, integration, and end-to-end tests they can bring back to their daily work.
Skills Gained
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify where AI tools meaningfully accelerate test creation and maintenance
- Create prompts and workflows that generate tests for acceptance criteria and edge cases
- Automate unit, integration, API, and end-to-end tests using AI assistants
- Evaluate and improve AI-generated tests for flakiness, coverage, and maintainability
- Integrate AI-assisted testing into CI/CD pipelines and team governance workflows
Who Can Benefit
- Software Developers
- QA & Test Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
Prerequisites
- Practical Python experience
- Practice experience in test engineering, test automation, or software development
- Familiarity with Git and basic CI/CD concepts
Course Details
Software
All attendees must have a modern web browser and an Internet connection.
Foundations of AI-Assisted Software Testing
- Shifts in modern testing: from manual to automation to AI-assisted
- Where AI fits in the testing lifecycle
- AI testing tool types — coding agents, assistants, and SDKs
- Strengths and limitations — what AI handles vs. what humans must supervise
- Deterministic vs. probabilistic systems in testing
- When not to use AI for testing
- Lab - Identifying AI Opportunities in Your Testing Workflow
- Lab - Validating AI-Generated Tests for Correctness
Prompting and Workflows for Generating Unit Tests
- Designing prompts from source code, user stories, and bug reports
- Guiding AI to cover edge cases, error handling, and boundary conditions
- Managing non-determinism and reproducibility in generated tests
- Reviewing, editing, and committing AI-generated tests with Git
- Building agent skills and commands for reproducible test generation
- Using commit diffs to generate regression tests
- Validating output before committing
- Lab - Generating and Refining Unit Tests
- Lab - Regression Test Generation from a Bug Report
AI for Integration and API Testing
- Generating API test skeletons from OpenAPI/Swagger specifications
- Spanning multiple services and data flows with integration tests
- Handling authentication, test data, and environment configuration
- Driving dynamic test data generation with an LLM SDK
- Generating contract validation and parameterized tests
- Detecting hallucinated endpoints and incorrect field assumptions
- Lab - Building AI-Assisted API Tests
- Lab - Validating and Hardening AI-Generated API Assertions
End-to-End and UI Testing with AI
- Generating Playwright test flows from plain-text user journeys
- Translating manual test cases into automated end-to-end tests
- Reducing flakiness in AI-suggested selectors and waits
- Capturing screenshots, logs, and traces for debugging
- Overriding AI-generated selectors and tuning performance
- Lab - Converting Manual Flows to Automated E2E Tests
- Lab - Flakiness Diagnosis and Stabilization
Quality, Coverage, and Test Maintenance with AI
- Analyzing existing test suites for gaps and redundancies
- Generating tests to improve coverage without exploding runtime
- Refactoring brittle or duplicated tests with AI suggestions
- Identifying redundant test cases via AI clustering
- Generating documentation and test summaries for stakeholders
- Lab - AI-Driven Test Suite Review
- Lab - Reducing Test Suite Runtime with AI Refactoring
Integrating AI-Assisted Testing into CI/CD
- Integration patterns for AI-generated tests in existing pipelines
- Guardrails — approvals, code review, and policies
- Metrics tracking — failure rates, flakiness, and time saved
- Governance and security for hosted AI tools
- Approval workflows and audit logging for AI-generated commits
- Lab - Wiring AI-Generated Tests into CI
- Lab - Approval and Governance Workflow for AI-Generated Tests
Schedule
FAQ
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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Reviews
Exit certified was great as it is very in depth and hands on learning which made it very easy to learn this type of work.
ExitCertified provided great learning material and the instructor was great.
Great class I learned a great deal from the material. There would seem to a large amount that I need to learn about.
The instructor really took his time and made sure I was able to understand the concepts.
Class was very informative, although one lab didnt but will try again later
