AI in Testing 2026: Tool, Colleague, Test Object
AI writes tests, explores apps and generates test data. And it becomes a test object itself. Five fields that really matter for testing with GenAI in 2026.
Test Automation
Automation of testing activities, including strategy, frameworks, tool selection, maintainability, and appropriate automation boundaries.
Foundations
Articles
Low-No-Code - Does anyone need a tester?
Explore software quality assurance's role in low-code testing. Ensure your projects meet high standards without sacrificing speed.
Test Automation of Different System Types
Explore test automation strategies for desktop, client-server, and web applications, ensuring effective testing across system types.
Implementing Test Automation
Boost efficiency with agile test automation. Experience structured implementation phases and enhance your project outcomes
Test automation - Types of Test Design
Explore various test automation approaches, from model-based to keyword-driven testing, and choose the right strategy for your needs.
Test automation - From Optional to Mandatory
Enhance your quality assurance with test automation. Discover how automated testing tools boost efficiency in software development.
Time for the Essentials
Use test automation tools to streamline routine tasks efficiently and gain more time for agile testing techniques.
10 Small Testing Tools
Get effective test automation tools suggestions to enhance testing efficiency and quality. Discover what works best for your team!
Podcast Episodes
The Three Root Causes Behind Most Performance Failures
Slow systems cost real money before they ever crash. A 70% CPU threshold triggers automated alerts, isolates the root cause, and keeps users from ever seeing a 404.
End-to-End Testing: How to Stop the Maintenance Trap
Flaky end-to-end tests and 40% of time lost to maintenance: one HTML attribute added in 2017 still prevents this today.
AI as a Tester: How LLM-as-Judge Works
Automating LLM tests, even though no result is guaranteed? It’s possible—if you redefine determinism and use LLMs as judges.
Why COBOL Developers Prefer Writing Tests in Java
COBOL developers found writing unit tests in Java easier than in their own language. The interface architecture made it work on a mainframe.
From developer to test automation engineer
From developer to test automation engineer: Why clean code principles decide which automation lasts for years and which doesn't.
Playwright: Python vs TypeScript, What Actually Differs
Playwright works just as well with Python as with TypeScript. Here's what changes, what you gain, and what you have to build yourself.
TACON - A practical conference about test automation
130 participants, a clear focus on test automation and real practical reports: Why TACON in Leipzig attracts more and more people every year.
Why Test Automation Needs Design Patterns
Test automation code deserves exactly the same design care as production code does. Page Object, Builder and Facade prevent spaghetti code.
The Robot Framework Journey
Robot Framework started as a master's thesis in 2004 and now has over 80 foundation members. Here's how a generic test core scales to a global ecosystem.
Legacy apps automated
From two weeks of manual testing to three hours: how an AI-based solution automates legacy apps without element IDs.
Tools Don’t Solve Test Automation
A gaming company logged nearly 5,000 defects in eight weeks. Better test automation strategy, not better tools, is how you change that picture.
Do your tools fit your real needs?
Picking the wrong end-to-end test framework can leave whole browsers untested. Here's how to match tools to real project needs before it costs you.
Migrating from Cypress to Playwright
Switching test automation frameworks mid-product is messy, yet a Cypress to Playwright move works. Pricing forced it, AI translated the tests.
Playwright vs Cypress vs WebdriverIO: A Clear Verdict
Playwright, Cypress and WebdriverIO compared on four criteria: why Playwright wins new projects, why WebdriverIO trails, and when switching is not worth it.
Business-driven test automation
Insurance salespeople test releases themselves when tools and coaching are right. A Center of Excellence needs three minutes per release.
Implementation as a test oracle
If you calculate target values for 2,500 signals manually, you lose the connection. How a reference implementation as a test oracle solves this.
When Robot Framework Is Worth It, and When It Isn't
End-to-end across web, desktop, database and 3270 hosts: where Robot Framework earns its place, where web-only tools stop, and why it won't die soon.
Migrating from Cypress to Playwright: The Real Effort
Migrating from Cypress to Playwright took one team over a year next to daily QA work. The stumbling blocks: session handling, request interception, grown tests.
CI Pipelines
Those who test protect everyone on the team and in the project, not just themselves. A test net for embedded builds on CMake and Google Test.
Test infrastructure at device manufacturers
700.000 lines of code in a combi steamer, 2,000 test cases per night: how test automation really works in device development.
GenAI in test automation
AI-generated test code compiles cleanly but very often tests the wrong thing entirely. Writing unit tests yourself is the smarter route.
Automated security checks
Pen tests at the end of a project always find the same headers, misconfigurations and gaps. Security in the pipeline cuts that to a handful.
Embedded Testing: How Far You Get Without the Hardware
The hardware arrives late, testing starts anyway. Why simulators fail at timing and bus protocols, and when real target hardware belongs in the CI pipeline.
Test technique for ZDF
90% of failed tests are real bugs, not automation errors. Why no project can do without manual testing.
AI, test automation and skills
AI testing, test data, accessibility: which trends testers should really have on their radar and why the right tool often doesn't solve the actual problem.
Transition to open source test automation
A test automation monolith that has grown for years, XML everywhere in the code like a tumor: How to refactor anyway and what really counts.
E2E Test Automation Framework Selection
Choosing an E2E test automation framework starts with the requirements, not with the tool. That saves the expensive framework switch later.
Test automation of mobile apps
Throwing away four years of test automation and starting from scratch: Why this radical cut was the right decision and what was done differently this time.
Keep CI small
6.000 test cases, CI runtime under 10 minutes: How test-based selection via code coverage makes exactly that possible.
House of Agile Quality
Agile quality needs more than test automation: roles, approach and processes must fit together. The House of Agile Quality shows you where to start.
Cypress
Cypress instead of Selenium: Why real browser testing is more stable, how component testing saves the test pyramid and where the tool's limits lie.
Automatic test case selection for regression testing
6.5 hours of test runtime, reduced to 10-15 minutes: How test case selection across C++ and Java makes it possible.
Test automation with Selenium
Selenium is not a test tool, but a browser automation. Why this difference determines how you integrate test automation into your team.
AI revolution in test automation
200 failed tests, but only seven real causes: How machine learning radically simplifies testing operations without rationalizing away roles.