ChatGPT has been out for over 6 months. Have you implemented real test automation with AI?

Reality Check of the hyped ChatGPT/AI testing.

Zhimin Zhan
4 min readJun 9, 2023

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Since ChatGPT’s release in December 2022, AI in Software Test Automation has been a hugely popular topic. Many claimed, “how great and easy that ChatGPT/AI helped test automation”. I am sure you have seen many posts saying, like below:

Six months is more than plenty for verifying a testing technology, especially web test automation (as the target barely changed over 20 years). Surely, a software tester cannot be against “VERIFY”, right (at least publicly)?

My question: “It has been six months, what is the reality of the end-to-end test automation at your software project? Show us”. I believe the common answer is: “Eh …. {excuses}”.

Let me provide some perspectives on this question in the context of real test automation.

  1. ChapGPT has been out for over 6 months, the claimed 500 times…

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.