Recently we at LaraChat had the opportunity to host an AMA session with the fine group at Testim.io. The following is an excerpt from the Slack AMA session we had.

Sudhrity:

Hello everyone, my name is Sudhrity Mondal. I manage the Technical Sales initiatives at Testim. I have worked in the Testing space for the past 10+ years which includes my experience here at Testim and at CA Technologies. I have worked on functional, performance testing. This includes technologies like Service Virtualization, Test Data Management, Test Automation, Continuous Testing etc.

I am glad to be here and answer any testing related questions that you may have.

Question:

It seems like testing is just as much process/know how as is it having the right tools. How does TestIM marry the two?

Sudhrity:
Yes, Testing is a process as much it is identifying and using the right set of tools. TestIM provides the toolset for GUI functional Test Automation. It helps create and automate the process of authoring and executing web based applications functional tests. It provides the ability to integrate testing with Continuous Integration (CI) to enable Continuous Testing. It integrates with Test Management systems to help improve the Testing process and provide visibility into what is being tested and the state of quality of the applications being tested.

Question:

What is sales engineering?

Sudhrity:

Sales Engineering is about the technical aspects of Sales. For software sales, this includes understanding customer technical requirements, presenting and customizing solutions and helping Sales team close deals.

Question:

Hey TestIM Team, curious about your ideal user or customer size? Small teams? Individual QA engineers?

Sudhrity:

Testim helps with automating functional tests. This can cut down on the amount of manual testing that is being done. Ideal users would include Test engineers, developers, and even manual testers who would like to execute the tests automatically instead of running them manually.

We have customers spanning from the top software and CRM companies to mid-size companies and startups as well.

Question:

How unique and defensible is the AI component of testIM and software testing? Is there further reading on how it works?

Sudhrity:

Testim uses AI and ML algorithms to identify and detect elements in a DOM. So when the page changes, Testim is able to locate the elements using attributes that hasn't changed. Testim is quite successful with doing that using its AI implementation.

Question:

Do you know of any Slack communities like this one but for software testing? Have you thought about creating your own?

Sudhrity:

There are a number of testing and test automation communities. Testim is also working on creating one focused on test automation. There are a number of Facebook pages dedicated on test automation.

Question:

Who/what are primary alternatives for TestIM? What were devs doing before you launched?

Sudhrity:

There are a few test automation solution vendors who claim to provide AI-based solutions for testing. MABL would be an example. Before Testim, devs were relying on technologies Selenium, Mercury and other for GUI functional testing.

Question:

I was wondering what some of the backend infrastructure looks like?Do you see any specific trends in testing? See that might become a bigger deal looking into the future?

Sudhrity:

Testim provides cloud-based grid servers to initiate web-based testing for different types of browsers on different OS platforms. Most customers applications that are being tested would either be running in their staging or production environment in the cloud or in their own datacenter. In some cases, lower environments like integration, systems test, UAT are also used to conduct testing.

Question:

The trends I see are moving towards autonomous testing where test cases and scripts are created automatically based on the actual usage of applications and then these tests are executed in a driverless fashion.

Sudhrity:

Thank you for joining today’s session. If you have any further questions on testing or test automation, please feel free to contact me through email sudhrity@testim.io or twitter @Sudhrity. Thank you, AMA for the opportunity to participate in your Q&A session.


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