Rise of the Machines: Can Artificial Intelligence Terminate Manual Testing?

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AI and ML already augment testing and target automated oracles, test generation, system modeling, and defect discovery with concrete tools and datasets. A crawler called Dora builds UI models, learns from user stories and existing test cases using NLP/LSTM, and combines neural nets, Bayesian nets, decision trees and reinforcement learning to generate readable tests. The talk cites large datasets (eg 30 million moves analogy), drives apps via Selenium/Robot Framework, runs tests in production with safe‑for‑patient validation and replicas, but the oracle problem remains.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:54Tariq King
3. 2:23What is testing
4. 5:12What is software
5. 5:52Artificial Intelligence
6. 9:04Chess
7. 13:22Goal
8. 22:40Deep Learning
9. 29:46Coverage
10. 31:03Software Complexity
11. 31:40Artificial Intelligence and Testing
12. 32:13The bots are here
13. 34:28How does it work
14. 36:43Dora
15. 38:05Dora learns
16. 39:23How it works
17. 39:54Benefits of testing
18. 41:10Limitations
19. 41:23Whitebox Testing
20. 41:50Trust in Technology
21. 44:06Dynamic Systems Initiatives
22. 45:46Testing is part of the system
23. 46:06In production
24. 48:17Manual Testing
25. 51:50The Beginning
26. 52:07AI Machine Learning
27. 53:18Its Real Life
28. 53:37The Challenge
29. 54:10One grand vision
30. 54:26No human intervention
31. 55:02Three Areas of Intersection
32. 55:36Our Vision
33. 55:49Community
34. 56:03Testing the Org
35. 56:26Communication Collaboration
36. 56:59The End
37. 57:13The Greatest Conference
38. 57:26Sharing and Diversity
39. 58:26Increasing Knowledge
40. 58:58Question Time

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