How to Build a QA Process with Testaify

Testaify Can Help You Build a Robust QA Process

A robust QA process is essential for delivering high-quality software that meets user expectations and business goals. Designing a thorough and efficient QA process can be challenging, though. Next-generation AI autonomous testing tools like Testaify will enable development teams like yours to optimize the QA process, removing the bottlenecks of manual testing while increasing test coverage and speed.

You can revise your QA process using Testaify’s unique autonomous testing capabilities. Whether you’re just starting with agile, looking to enhance your QA workflows, or striving for continuous testing in a CI/CD pipeline, Testaify can help streamline and strengthen your QA process and quality efforts.

Step 1: Define Your QA Objectives and Requirements for your QA Process

Every successful QA process begins with clear objectives and a well-defined scope of your goals. Every QA process will include functional testing, performance, usability, and security testing. A comprehensive testing approach is ideal, covering all quadrants of Brian Marick’s Agile Testing Matrix.

How Testaify Helps Your QA Process Overall

Testaify supports a range of functional testing techniques, including State Transition Coverage and Basis Path Coverage, as we aim to offer continuous comprehensive testing. By using Testaify’s AI Discovery Engine to discover your web application and autonomously generate and execute test cases using Testaify’s AI Test Generation and Execution Engines, you can achieve robust test coverage without manual input or intervention. This capability is especially beneficial in agile environments, where testing needs to be efficient and continuous.

Teams can align their objectives with Testaify’s capabilities to focus on faster feedback cycles, higher quality, and lower resource use. Testaify allows you to use AI to conduct your regression testing, freeing you up to focus on other testing approaches required by your QA process.

Step 2: Set Up Autonomous Discovery and Test Generation Within Your QA Process

Traditional QA processes involve manually identifying test cases based on software requirements and creating test scripts to validate functionality. This manual effort can be time-consuming, prone to human error, and difficult to scale. It’s impossible to know if you’re testing the right things because of the many test combinations required to thoroughly test your product. Testaify, however, automates the discovery and test generation processes, dramatically reducing the time needed.

How Testaify’s AI Discovery Engine Helps Your QA Process

Testaify’s AI Discovery Engine is designed to explore and understand your application autonomously, mapping out its structure, identifying critical paths, and pinpointing potential areas for testing. Much like an experienced QA professional who analyzes the software’s components, Testaify’s AI Discovery Engine “learns” the application by interacting with it, allowing it to generate a blueprint, a State Transition Diagram, for effective testing.

With this autonomous discovery capability, Testaify can identify critical user flows and functionalities within your application without requiring explicit input from your team. AI-led discovery provides a solid foundation for thorough testing without manual test cases and will dramatically improve your QA process.

How Testaify’s AI Test Generation Engine Helps Your QA Process

Once the AI Discovery Engine has mapped the application, Testaify’s AI Test Generation Engine takes over. This engine automatically generates test cases based on the application’s structure, ensuring that all critical paths are tested. Each test case is carefully designed to cover specific functionalities, enhancing your test coverage without manual intervention.

With Testaify, teams can skip manually designing individual test cases for their QA process, freeing up valuable time for other development and testing tasks. The generated test cases are also more likely to identify potential issues missed in manual testing because AI can generate many more tests quickly, leading to improved quality.

Step 3: Accelerate your QA Process with Autonomous Test Execution

With traditional QA processes, executing tests—especially large test suites—can be slow and resource-intensive. Test automation scripts are fragile and prone to breaking. Manual test execution is time-consuming and inconsistent due to variations in how individual testers interpret and perform each test. Testers also have varying skill sets. Few testers have mastered all functional testing methodologies that would enable them to thoroughly test the application.

How Testaify’s AI Execution Engine Helps Your QA Process

Testaify’s AI Execution Engine executes the generated test cases autonomously. This automation allows you to run your AI-generated test suite quickly and delivers rapid feedback.

Testaify’s AI Execution Engine simulates user interactions within the application, tests functionality, and captures detailed results for review. Because AI is at the wheel, Testaify ensures test cases are executed consistently and accurately. Testaify is ideal for agile teams where fast-paced development cycles require efficient and reliable testing.

With Testaify handling the bulk of the execution, QA teams are freed from repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on more strategic initiatives. Faster test execution means that feedback can be delivered to developers promptly, facilitating continuous improvement and helping teams maintain momentum.

Step 4: Reap the Benefits of Your QA Process as You Review and Validate Testaify’s Findings

Once the tests have been executed and findings have been logged, Testaify’s AI-led work is done. It’s now up to you to leverage those findings within your QA process. Testaify’s findings refer to tests that passed or failed. You’ll analyze the results and validate any issues discovered during testing. In traditional QA workflows, analyzing test results can be time-consuming. Testaify simplifies this process and provides actionable insights into findings as you continue to execute test sessions.

How Testaify’s Detailed Findings and Reporting Support Your QA Process

After each test session, Testaify provides valuable reporting that includes all test passes and failures, categorized by functional testing methodology. Each finding contains detailed test steps, including test input data. You can watch the test replay if reading test steps isn’t your forte. Access to findings with easily replicated tests allows QA teams to quickly identify defects and determine their severity because developers or QA engineers don’t need to reproduce the test manually. 

Step 5: Embrace Continuous Improvement in Your QA Process with Testaify

Continuous improvement is essential in your agile environment. Your QA process must be adaptive, evolving alongside your product to ensure that new features, updates, and fixes are adequately covered. With Testaify’s AI-first testing platform, development teams benefit from an intelligent system that will enhance their QA process over time. 

How Testaify Supports Continuous Improvement in Your QA Process

Testaify rediscovers your web app each time you launch a test session, so the platform can keep up with code changes without overloading QA teams. Also, prior tests where you validated the finding as a defect continue to run in future test sessions, streamlining your regression testing efforts. The AI at the heart of the Testaify platform analyzes data from every test session, learning from previous test cases and refining its approach to future tests. This continuous learning process means that Testaify becomes more accurate, efficient, and effective as it gathers more data. 

When you bring Testaify into your QA process, you ensure your testing efforts are continually improving and can keep up with the evolving needs of your application and team. This approach enables teams to enhance the quality of their products while reducing the manual effort expended on testing. The time you save can be used for other testing efforts or new feature development! 

Testaify Can Help Keep Your Users Happy

Incorporating Testaify into your QA process simplifies testing so you can achieve the following:

• Happier users: Testaify will help you find bugs faster by simulating how your users work with your app. When you validate a finding and fix it, that’s one less issue for your users to find. 
• Greater Test Coverage: Autonomous discovery and test generation ensure your web app is fully exercised in testing efforts.
• Reduced Testing Time: Autonomous execution allows you to execute many tests in less time than manual efforts alone. Test sessions take minutes or hours, not days or weeks, protecting your release velocity.
• Consistent and Reliable Testing: Testaify’s AI engines manage discovery, test generation, and test execution, ensuring tests are performed consistently. Also, Testaify natively understands functional testing methodologies, eliminating potential issues due to knowledge gaps or human error.
• Continuous Improvement: Testaify’s AI will learn more about your web application with every test session, enabling the platform’s effectiveness to grow over time.
• Efficient Resource Allocation: By automating repetitive tasks, Testaify frees your QA engineers, testing team, or developers to focus on strategic and creative initiatives like exploratory testing or new feature development.

Implement a Streamlined QA Process with Testaify in Just a Few Steps

Implementing Testaify as the core of your QA process doesn’t require extensive onboarding or a lengthy setup. The platform’s intuitive design and powerful AI-driven engines allow you to get started quickly, usually in less than five minutes:

1. Create a user account with Testaify by selecting one of our plans. (For now, you can join the waitlist, but as soon as we move into general release, you can use Testaify to test your web apps!) 
2. Connect to your web app by providing the URL and credentials. 
3. Set up users so that Testaify can impersonate different roles accessing your application.
4. Start a test session. 

Testaify makes it easier than ever to establish a comprehensive, efficient QA process that adapts to your team’s needs. From autonomous discovery to continuous improvement, Testaify covers every step of the functional testing cycle, helping you deliver high-quality software faster. Welcome to the revolution in testing. Welcome to a QA process supported by Testaify.