Gartner defines AI-augmented software testing tools as enablers of continuous, self-optimizing and adaptive automated testing through the use of AI technologies. The capabilities run the gamut of the testing life cycle including test scenario and test case generation, test automation generation, test suite optimization and prioritization, test analysis and defect prediction as well as test effort estimation and decision making. These tools help software engineering teams to increase test coverage, test efficacy and robustness. They assist humans in their testing efforts and reduce the need for human intervention in the different phases of testing.
Gartner defines the service orchestration and automation platform (SOAP) market as encompassing solution suites that deliver capabilities enabling organizations to manage workloads, workflows, resource provisioning and data pipelines across their technology landscapes. SOAPs enable infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to design and implement business services. These platforms combine workflow orchestration, workload automation and resource provisioning across an organization’s hybrid digital infrastructure. Increasingly, they are central to an organization’s ability to deploy workloads and to optimize deployments as a part of cost and availability initiatives. SOAPs expand the role of traditional workload automation by adapting to use cases that deliver and extend into data pipelines, cloud-native infrastructures and application architectures. These tools complement and integrate with DevOps toolchains to provide customer-focused agility, cost savings, operational efficiency and process standardization.