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A Tester's Guide to Testing AI Applications

23 Jan 2018
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Self-driving cars, intelligent digital assistants, making parole decisions, detecting, developing new treatments and drugs, and reviewing legal contracts and documents – the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is increasingly finding its way into mainstream software development. If you are not currently working on a product or project that includes AI technology, you will likely be within the next five years.

While there are a great many resources covering AI from a development perspective, there are few that deal with testing AI-based software despite the challenges and risks this poses. For example:

 How do we test software… 
  • When the decision logic is not clearly defined?
  • When the results may be wrong, and that’s OK sometimes
  • That learns and adapts based on interactions
  • To find the problems that will matter when the input domain is complex and massive
  • That may need to collaborate or compete with other AI software.

These are just some of the challenges of testing AI-based software and while traditional software test design ideas can help but are generally not enough to explore the capabilities of AI-Based software.

In this Masterclass, Bill will take you beyond the AI hype and give you a pragmatic and useful perspective of what AI is. You'll then be shown how testing an AI-based application differs from more traditional applications and explore some strategies to help you tackle testing of AI-based applications.

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