How Testaify Designs and Executes Intelligent Tests

This post continues our series on how Testaify works. In our previous post, we explored how Testaify's AI-powered discovery engine, which autonomously maps and understands your application, contributes to the creation of a comprehensive application model. Now we'll dive into what happens next: how that comprehensive application model becomes the foundation for designing and executing sophisticated, intelligent tests.

From Understanding to Intelligent Testing

The comprehensive application model created during discovery becomes the intelligent foundation for sophisticated test design and execution. While discovery occasionally reveals potential issues, such as broken links, its primary mission is to understand your application—not test it. Systematic testing of the application occurs during the execution phase.

AI-Powered Test Design

Our AI-powered test design, a blend of GenAI and traditional AI techniques, ensures the creation of comprehensive and meaningful test scenarios. The GenAI component brings contextual intelligence, understanding not just that elements exist but what business domains they support and what outcomes they should produce. Traditional AI algorithms ensure systematic coverage following proven software testing methodologies, providing a robust and efficient testing process.

Current Testing Techniques

Testaify currently supports two fundamental software testing techniques, enhanced by AI intelligence:

State Transition Coverage tests all possible states your application can reach and validates all transitions between those states. Using the application model from discovery, we ensure every discovered state is tested and all navigation paths are validated. This technique is particularly powerful for modern web applications that behave like sophisticated state machines with multiple configurations based on user roles or filters.

Basis Path Coverage focuses on testing all independent logical paths through your application. While state transition coverage tests all possible states, basis path coverage ensures we validate every fundamental logical flow your application can execute. This technique is particularly valuable for complex applications that involve multiple decision points and conditional logic.

Leveraging User Roles

Testaify utilizes the role information you provide when setting up test users throughout the entire process—from discovery through design and execution. Different user roles have access to different functionality and can perform different actions. Our AI generates tailored test scenarios for each user type, ensuring that access controls are validated and each role can complete its intended workflows.

This role-aware approach enables testing of complex multi-user scenarios where different roles interact with the same data or processes, creating realistic test conditions that mirror actual usage patterns.

Parallel Test Execution with Worker Bees

For test execution, we deploy up to ten parallel execution workers—our "worker bees"—that execute different test cases simultaneously using Selenium Grid. This parallel approach dramatically reduces execution time while simulating realistic concurrent user scenarios. We recommend adding 10 test users when configuring your application. However, if you only add five users, we will deploy five worker bees to execute the tests. Maximize each test session by ensuring all ten users are added in a way that proportionally represents actual users by role. 

The worker bees coordinate intelligently to ensure comprehensive coverage without conflicts. They operate as intelligent agents, adapting their behavior based on the current application state and handling unexpected conditions gracefully.

Expanding Testing Capabilities

Future releases will incorporate additional software testing techniques into our platform. Planned additions include boundary value testing for input validation, equivalence partitioning to optimize test cases, and decision table testing to validate complex business rules. Each new technique will integrate seamlessly with our existing capabilities, building upon the comprehensive application model.

What's Next

The sophisticated test design and execution capabilities generate valuable information about your application's behavior and reliability. In our next post, we'll explore how Testaify transforms test results into actionable insights through intelligent findings analysis—identifying genuine issues and providing the context development teams need to resolve problems quickly.

The journey from discovery through intelligent test execution creates a comprehensive testing foundation that adapts to your application's complexity while providing depth and coverage that manual testing cannot achieve.