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Accelerating Software Testing with AI
Tune software testing with AI coding agents and SDKs for unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage. This AI testing course teaches developers and QA engineers how to direct AI tools across the...
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$2,495USD
Duration
3 days
Course Code
AIC-2104
Available Formats
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Overview
Course Description
Tune software testing with AI coding agents and SDKs for unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage. This AI testing course teaches developers and QA engineers how to direct AI tools across the testing lifecycle. The course covers AI testing foundations and unit-test workflows, integration, API, and end-to-end testing with Playwright, quality and coverage with suite-gap analysis, and CI/CD integration with governance and audit logging. Learners practice writing prompts that generate tests for acceptance criteria and edge cases, build OpenAPI-driven integration suites and Playwright UI tests, and integrate AI-assisted testing into CI/CD pipelines with team governance. Hands-on labs walk through real scenarios, including AI-generated unit tests, an OpenAPI-driven integration suite, Playwright UI tests, a suite-gap report, and AI-test CI/CD integration with audit logging. The course is designed for software developers, QA engineers, and DevOps engineers who already write tests.
Skills Gained
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify where AI tools meaningfully accelerate test creation plus maintenance
- Author prompts plus workflows that generate tests for acceptance criteria and edge cases
- Automate unit, integration, API, and end-to-end tests using AI assistants
- Evaluate AI-generated tests for flakiness, coverage, plus maintainability
- Integrate AI-assisted testing into CI/CD pipelines plus team governance workflows
Who Can Benefit
This course is designed for:
- Software Developers
- QA & Test Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
Prerequisites
Participants should enter this course with:
- Practical Python experience
- Practical experience in test engineering, test automation, or software development
- Familiarity with Git and basic CI/CD concepts
Organizational Objectives
This course assists organizations to:
- Reduce test-authoring time across the team through AI-assisted generation patterns
- Lower defect-escape rate by widening edge-case and boundary coverage with AI
- Establish governance and audit trails for AI-generated test changes
- Build a working knowledge of AI-assisted testing across QA and development functions
Software
All attendees must have a modern web browser and an Internet connection.
Course Details
Course Details
Module 1 - Foundations of AI-Assisted Software Testing
By the end of this module, you will be able to recognize where AI fits in the testing lifecycle, distinguish between coding agents, assistants, and SDKs, and identify the situations where AI testing is the wrong tool.
- 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
- Hands-on Lab: Identify AI opportunities in your existing testing workflow and validate AI-generated tests for correctness on a sample suite.
Module 2 - Prompting and Workflows for Generating Unit Tests
By the end of this module, you will be able to design prompts from source code, user stories, and bug reports, guide AI to cover edge cases, manage non-determinism in generated tests, and use commit diffs to generate regression 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, validating, and committing AI-generated tests with Git
- Building agent skills and commands for reproducible test generation
- Using commit diffs to generate regression tests
- Hands-on Lab: Generate, refine, and commit unit tests including a regression test produced from a real bug report.
Module 3 - AI for Integration and API Testing
By the end of this module, you will be able to generate API test skeletons from OpenAPI/Swagger, drive dynamic test data with an LLM SDK, span multiple services with integration tests, and detect hallucinated endpoints and field assumptions.
- 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
- Hands-on Lab: Build AI-assisted API tests from one OpenAPI spec and harden the AI-generated assertions against hallucination.
Module 4 - End-to-End and UI Testing with AI
By the end of this module, you will be able to generate Playwright flows from plain-text user journeys, translate manual tests into automation, reduce flakiness in AI-suggested selectors and waits, and capture screenshots and traces for debugging.
- 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
- Hands-on Lab: Convert one manual test flow to an automated E2E test and stabilize its flakiness through deliberate selector tuning.
Module 5 - Quality, Coverage, and Test Maintenance with AI
By the end of this module, you will be able to analyze test suites for gaps and redundancies, generate tests that improve coverage without runtime explosion, refactor brittle tests, and produce stakeholder-friendly test summaries.
- 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
- Hands-on Lab: Run an AI-driven test-suite review and reduce runtime through AI-assisted refactoring.
Module 6 - Integrating AI-Assisted Testing into CI/CD
By the end of this module, you will be able to integrate AI-generated tests into existing CI pipelines, apply guardrails and approval workflows, track AI-test metrics, and govern hosted AI tools with audit logging.
- 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
- Hands-on Lab: Wire AI-generated tests into a CI pipeline with an approval and audit-logging workflow.
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.
What languages are used to deliver training?
Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.
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At Ascendient Learning, we offer training that is Instructor-Led, Online, Virtual, and Self-Paced.
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Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
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As a vendor-authorized training partner, we offer a curriculum that our partners have vetted. We use the same course materials and facilitate the same labs as our vendor-delivered training. These courses are considered the gold standard and, as such, are priced accordingly.
Is the training too basic, or will you go deep into technology?
It depends on your requirements, your role in your company, and your depth of knowledge. The good news about many of our learning paths, you can start from the fundamentals to highly specialized training.
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We continuously work with our vendors to evaluate and refresh course material to reflect the latest training courses and best practices.
Are your instructors seasoned trainers who have deep knowledge of the training topic?
Ascendient Learning instructors have an average of 27 years of practical IT experience and have also served as consultants for an average of 15 years. To stay current, instructors spend at least 25 percent of their time learning new, emerging technologies and courses.
Do you provide hands-on training and exercises in an actual lab environment?
Lab access is dependent on the vendor and the type of training you sign up for. However, many of our top vendors will provide lab access to students to test and practice. The course description will specify lab access.
Will you customize the training for our company’s specific needs and goals?
We will work with you to identify training needs and areas of growth. We offer a variety of training methods, such as private group training, on-site of your choice, and virtually. We provide courses and certifications that are aligned with your business goals.
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You will get access to the PDF of course books and guides, but access to the recording and slides will depend on the vendor and type of training you receive.
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Reviews
Provided good amount of material and a great instructor to teach the material.
The platform is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Great tool for learning
They are very good and made sure we had all the appropriate materials for class.
Some Labs are very good but some steps it ask to update but its already updated, but overall its very good training.
The training was great . But i expected some of the Networking concepts would be covered in this certification .
