Automated QA and Testing with AI

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Automatic programming significantly speeds up software development but often doesn't match the structural quality of the best hand-written code, though it surpasses decent hand-written code in many cases.
Using AI for new software involves a trade-off between quality and time; some projects that take months can be completed in weeks.
LLMs enable new, more powerful automation without compromising quality in specific domains, notably software QA and testing.
Traditional testing uses test suites and manual QA passes, which may miss complex integration issues and states not covered by line coverage.
LLMs offer a novel QA approach: an AI agent acts as a QA engineer via a markdown file, conducting tests based on new commits and a list of tasks.
The AI agent checks for regressions and performs integration testing (e.g., distributed inference) with minimal instructions, adapting to changes without needing fixed benchmarks.
Testing can extend to psychological aspects of software quality, such as identifying surprising features or poor documentation, areas often skipped in manual testing.
Automatic QA could raise software quality standards and help compensate for lower code quality from rapid AI-driven development.

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