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By Lauren Harold
Contents AI is now embedded across the entire software development lifecycle. Developers use it to generate code. Product managers use it to prototype features. Teams use it to move from idea to deployment faster than ever. Code moves faster. Features ship more frequently. Iteration cycles shrink. Across industries, companies that embrace this speed have a distinct competitive advantage. But in highly regulated industries, including financial services, speed can’t come at the cost of quality.
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By Lauren Harold
When it comes to QA, AI-powered automated testing tools promise more speed, better coverage, and lower maintenance. But they don’t all solve the same problems, and their approach to solving problems can be fundamentally different. Some platforms lean heavily into autonomy. Others focus primarily on speed or aggressive self-healing. A smaller group applies AI in specific parts of the workflow while preserving test execution reliability and human control.
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By Fred Stevens-Smith
We’ve all been there. When engineering teams evaluate AI-powered QA tools, the same questions come up again and again. Some are rooted in genuine technical curiosity. Others stem from experiences with earlier-generation tools that earned a healthy dose of skepticism. After hundreds of these conversations, I’ve identified the seven most common misconceptions. Contents Toggle.
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By Lauren Harold
The right AI tools make all the difference in QA testing AI has officially entered every corner of software testifng. The hard part now is figuring out which tools and features actually save time, speed releases, and (most importantly) improve quality outcomes. According to a recent survey from Test Guild, 72.8% of testers are prioritizing AI-powered QA for 2026. This includes tools that handle test planning, test management, test writing, and even analyzing test results. Contents Toggle.
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By Sebastian Herrera
AI-assisted software development makes building new features to help our customers an exercise in speed. Rainforest has a deep culture of experimentation and iteration, and we’re actively exploring how AI can help us work smarter. At our core, we aren’t just building an AI test generation tool; we are constantly experimenting with how AI can make our own development cycles leaner, faster, and more intuitive. That includes experimenting with AI-assisted software development.
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By Jiri Kaipr
Building a web application crawler came with plenty of challenges—here’s what we learned. Recently, we built a web application crawler from scratch—which had some scratching their heads, asking why we’d undertake such a thing. Here’s our answer to that, plus some interesting technical challenges we ran into and how we tackled them.
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By James Palmer
AI fosters speed. Transparency fosters confidence. AI for QA testing is suddenly everywhere. Every tool claims it’s “AI-powered.” Every demo promises smarter test generation, faster maintenance, and fewer bugs. Plus, with AI accelerating the pace at which developers write and ship code, QA leaders are under growing pressure to keep up. It makes sense that teams are looking for AI for QA testing. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: AI in QA only works if you can trust it.
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By James Palmer
Before you can test software, you need to know what to test. That’s where many QA teams stall out. They don’t have the right software testing tools for mapping the app, identifying user paths, and determining testing priorities. So, building a test plan can take days (or more) of manual work. It’s often slow, frustrating, and error-prone.
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By Lauren Harold
When we first published this report last year, AI in software testing was still an experiment for most teams. Since then, well… everything has changed. In 2025, AI hasn’t been a promise of what’s to come — it’s become an everyday reality.
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By Rainforest
See how long it takes for the exact same test steps — covering a login flow for Wikipedia — to be created in Rainforest vs. Playwright. Using Rainforest's no-code platform is up to 3x faster than using an open source framework like Playwright to automate end-to-end tests.
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By Rainforest
Get five hours of automated testing for free every month when you try it at https://www.rainforestqa.com.
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Rainforest QA is changing the way QA is done in an era of continuous delivery. Our on-demand QA solution improves the customer experience by enabling development teams to discover significantly more problems before code hits production. Hundreds of companies including Adobe, Oracle and Solarwinds use Rainforest to automate their QA testing process and easily integrate it with their development workflow via a simple API.
No Code Automated Testing:
- Powering Collaboration: Empower everyone on your team with no-code automation testing. Rainforest Automation rapidly scales coverage and drastically decreases software testing time.
- Best of both worlds: A new way to write and execute tests combining the best of human and machine based testing. Have both the flexibility of large test coverage and the ability to fall back to human testers when needed.
- Custom Workflows: Unite automation and manual testing within a single suite and customize your workflow: run against humans for major production releases, run every branch merge against robots.
One platform for both manual and automated software testing.