State of AI in Testing Survey 2026: What We Are Asking

TestMu AI’s State of AI in Testing Survey 2026 is a confidential, no-login questionnaire for software quality professionals that takes about 10 minutes and will produce a free public report in September 2026. It updates the company’s 2023 survey of 1,615 practitioners in 70 countries, where 77.7% of organizations were using or planning to use AI, but reliability concerns, skills shortages, and authoring-focused uses such as test-data and test-case creation dominated adoption. The new survey examines how testing has changed with agentic capabilities, including generating tests from requirements, self-healing test suites, pull-request validation, and the testing of AI-powered products themselves. It also seeks to measure current barriers, changing skill needs, reasons teams avoid AI, and the testing decisions organizations still require humans to approve. TestMu AI encourages responses from underrepresented groups such as manual testers, regulated industries, device-heavy QA teams, and small organizations, while stating that results will be published only in aggregate and individual respondents or employers will not be identified.

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