How do you sleep at night? Arthur Hicken and Igor Kirilenko on testing AI-generated code

"How do you sleep at night?" is a question the MoTaverse team asks internally when making decisions, with a specific focus on the AI world,, so Rosie put it to two people who have spent decades building tools for teams who cannot afford a bad night. Arthur Hicken has been at Parasoft since 1992. Igor Kirilenko joined fourteen years ago and now leads the product.

Arthur's answer starts with the 2am phone call. You can stay in firefighting mode forever, or you can stop lighting fires, which means thinking ahead about the crazy user, the cyber attack, the slow network, the ten million users you never planned for. Igor's answer is visibility. Do you know what you tested, can you repeat it, and can you even finish the suite overnight?

Then AI arrives and unsettles both answers. They cover why the "let AI discover and test everything" pitch has gone quiet, the repeatability problem that killed it, test impact analysis for rerunning only what a build touches, service virtualization for non-deterministic dependencies, automated remediation, and why safety critical teams carry the most worry but sleep the easiest.

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