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Agentic Testing

A testing workforce that never clocks out

SmartBear BearQ™ explores your application, generates tests, and validates behavior without waiting for your team to write a single script.

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The challenge

Test automation wasn't designed to keep up with AI coding.

Manual work that compoundsTraditional automation tools put the burden on your team. Someone has to define every test, maintain every script, and update every assertion when the application changes. That work compounds and never ends.A widening test gapAs AI shortens release cycles, the gap between how fast teams ship and how fast they can test keeps growing. The scope of features, workflows, and coverage keeps expanding, but the manual effort to validate them stays the same.

Agentic testing

HOW BEARQ WORKS

Explore. Validate. Report. Repeat.

BearQ doesn't wait to be told what to test. It starts by exploring your application the way a user would: navigating pages, discovering workflows, and understanding how they connect.

Autonomous exploration
BearQ navigates your application from the ground up, discovering workflows and building a model of expected behavior with optional context and guidance from your team.
Page & workflow discovery User-flow mapping Behavioral modeling Ongoing re-exploration
Automated test generation
Tests are created directly from exploration, as well as from scenarios from your team and external sources like feature specs or PR comments; no scripting required. Coverage expands as BearQ learns more about your application.
Scenario-based test creation Coverage growth over time Workflow validation
Continuous execution
BearQ doesn't have to wait for a schedule. Tests run on the schedule or triggers your team defines, validating your application as it evolves.
Always-on validation Scheduled & triggered execution Coverage reports Real-time defects
Self-healing maintenance
When your application changes, BearQ updates your tests accordingly. As workflows shift, BearQ adapts your tests to keep coverage current.
Automatic UI adaptation with safeguards No manual script updates Stable coverage

IN PRACTICE

What autonomous testing looks like on day one

  1. Your team points BearQ at your application and defines focus areas and guardrails.
  2. BearQ begins exploring: navigating pages, clicking through user-flows, and building a behavioral model.
  3. Within hours, BearQ has generated an initial set of tests and begun executing validation.
  4. As your team ships new features, BearQ re-explores, adapts its tests, and keeps coverage current.
  5. Your team reviews daily summaries, acts on flagged defects, and spends less time maintaining scripts.

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See agentic testing in action.

Watch BearQ explore your application, generate tests, and validate behavior without waiting for your team to write a single script.

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