Parasoft Offers Agentic AI Approach to API Test Generation
Parasoft, a global leader in AI-automated software testing solutions, is adding Agentic AI capabilities to SOAtest, featuring API test planning and creation to make it easier for testing teams with diverse skill sets to adopt API test automation.
Parasoft also has enhanced its Continuous Testing Platform (CTP), extending Test Impact Analysis (TIA) and code coverage collection to manual testers, further reducing technical barriers, accelerating feedback, and improving collaboration between development and quality assurance (QA) teams to fine-tune code quality.
“At Parasoft, our innovation has always centered on pragmatic automation that makes it easier for customers to build quality into every release,” said Igor Kirilenko, chief product officer, Parasoft. “Our new Agentic AI capability reflects this mindset, helping users achieve faster, smarter outcomes. Likewise, our enhanced test impact analysis and code coverage aggregation—spanning automated and manual testing—helps teams meet their coverage goals with greater speed and agility.”
In previous releases, Parasoft introduced the AI Assistant as an IDE-embedded intelligent chat interface to provide real-time technical guidance on tool usage and test creation.
This release now enables a tester to, in natural language, request the AI to generate API test scenarios using service definition files. Going beyond simple test creation, the AI Assistant leverages AI agents to generate test data and parameterize the test scenario for data looping, according to the company.
Complex, multi-step workflows with dynamic data are handled in collaboration with the user, allowing less technical testers to build complicated tests without requiring scripts, advanced code-level skills, or in-depth domain knowledge.
In addition to reducing technical burdens, Parasoft’s AI Assistant will help customers scale API testing and automate other in-product actions. As additional agents are introduced over time, it will produce even smarter test scenarios and workflow guidance.
In keeping with Parasoft’s goals to elevate software testing value and increase velocity, QA teams can leverage Parasoft CTP to collect and analyze code coverage from manual test runs, then publish that coverage into Parasoft DTP for deeper analysis.
“QA is the last line of defense when it comes to safeguarding software quality,” said Daniel Garay, director, software quality assurance, Parasoft. “Efficiency is key. Enhanced code coverage across both automated and remaining manual tests is vital to keeping pace with development and getting quicker feedback, so we can confidently close all gaps and move forward with peace of mind.”
In the latest CTP release, Parasoft expands its existing test impact analysis and coverage collection capabilities to manual testing workflows for Java and .NET applications. Teams can now create, import, and manage manual tests directly in CTP, capture code coverage as those tests run, and utilize that data in test impact analysis to pinpoint exactly which manual regression tests need to be rerun to validate application changes.
These new capabilities are available now.
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