coTestPilot: AI for Human?Testers
Richard Bradshaw pointed out that most of the talk about AI for developers is to assist their work and give them superpowers. Most of the chatter regarding AI for testers is to replace most of their work and focus on automation instead of helping the humans. I am guilty as charged, Richard!?
“I really feel like the testing tool space is getting AI all wrong.”?—?Richard Bradshaw
Richard's comment reminded me of building tools to assist with manual and exploratory bug filing when I worked at Google. My team built a Chrome extension for Google Maps. But, it was a lot of work, and I left soon after. Along with me, any momentum and resources to complete and deploy it left the company. Frustratingly, many of the early ‘testers’ were just being ‘testers’ and only tried to find the flaws instead of focusing on building value.?This might be part of the reason testers don't get many great tools. Hmmm...
Thanks to Richard’s nudge, I’ve built an AI-first version of the Chrome extension to help testers. It is super simple, whenever a tester is, well, testing, they can click a button and get some AI suggestions for things like possible bugs, things to explore, test cases, and flows that users would expect to complete. It also delivers a summary of the page and even includes some thoughts on what is Good about the page so testers can start winning friends and influencing people?:-)
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This is just the beginning. If you want to try it out or deploy it at your work, or just have suggestions, let me know.
I’m super interested in testers’ thoughts, dreams, and suggestions. If there is enough interest, maybe we can keep building this out and deliver superpowers for actual human testers with AI.?
Thanks for the nudge, Richard!
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1 年Would be nice if the pilot can read and show the apis connected to this page and show the data parameters and flows
QA | Tester | CTFL | MGM3.0 | Cypress | Playwright | JS | TS
1 年You have no idea how happy I got reading this!! Thats something absolutely nice that I really missed along the way, like github copilot. Gimme the ideas and suggestions and let me think if it makes sense, get the burocracy out of my way and let me do the brainwork. Thats what I expect from an IA. Suggestion1: been possible to integrate it with Jira or any other bug tracking to facilitate bug's reporting and test cases creation. Suggestion2: I think that would be kind of hard to do but, when dealing with an edge bug that can't be reproduced every time, giving suggestions about what are the variables that could be causing the bug. Like: slow internet + lose access token + multiple clicks at a button at the same time makes the app to crash. (If you are not aware that your internet was failing at the moment or that you had a problem with the token at the exactly time you multi clicked, you might think that just the multi clicking was the problem)
Engineering Lead - Product Quality at Meta | Data, Automation, Cloud & AI
1 年Would be nice to see something for native apps as well!
Software Engineer In Test at ByteDance | Quality Assurance Testing, UI Testing, Quality Metrics
1 年Jason Arbon it makes sense to know the google homepage and hence be able to tell important use cases or information about the page. Wondering how would this extension provide this information for not-google-like web pages. Lets say some company internal website ? Good idea though.
Senior Engineering Manager / Head of Practice / Test Director
1 年Suspect this might be user error but the sign up link tells me the form is only available to people in your org (or at least not me) Would be interested to give it a go though