SmartBear announced AI enhancements for API testing, UI test automation, and test management across its product suite, the SmartBear Application Integrity Core™.
DEVOPSdigest asked the top minds in the industry what they think AIOps can do for DevOps and developers. Part 5 covers testing and quality.
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TEST-DRIVEN APPROACH
DevOps teams can leverage AIOps to proactively manage deployments with a test-driven approach that reduces mean time to recover and restore (MTTR). With AIOPs, analytics are leveraged to prepare, deploy, test, and remediate with intelligent automation pipelines that lead to better outcomes, cost savings, and enhanced observability.
Randy Randhawa
SVP of Engineering, Virtana
SIMULATING REAL WORLD SCENARIOS
AIOPs ,when implemented correctly, can help developers simulate real world scenarios and pinpoint potential issues in applications so that they can be fixed preventatively. This could be a huge competitive advantage for companies who are relying on software to build immersive and memorable experiences for customers.
Milan Bhatt
EVP, Hexaware
CI/CD PIPELINE
AIOps can be leveraged to monitor, correlate, and recommend actions for continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipeline like it is used for assuring application performance and health after deployment.
Randy Randhawa
SVP of Engineering, Virtana
UNDERSTANDING IMPACT OF CHANGE
AIOps could bring developers' agility with confidence in product development and quality delivery by helping developers understand impact of change across teams and distributed architecture to operate with each other without worrying about customer impact.
Bhanu Singh
VP Product Development and Cloud Operations, OpsRamp
SHIFT LEFT QUALITY ASSURANCE
AI in DevOps cycle enables to shift-left the quality assurance in a more guided and automated way. Instead of finding problems in production, you can find them, or do right, while developing.
Antonio Alegria
Head of AI, OutSystems
AIOps can help flag non-compliance at an early stage of the development.
Muraleedharan Vijayakumar
Senior Technical Manager, GAVS Technologies
DEVELOPING ALGORITHMS
Developers and AI/ML scientists will continue to evolve in their specialties. Developers and scientists need to be focused on designing the right metrics, and researching and developing algorithms to deliver to those metrics. The AIOps team should be in a critical partnership with the algorithm developers to ensure that the data pipelines are constantly delivering that technology and that the environments are scaled in a way to keep the data-pipeline, model-generation machine running smoothly.
Michael Estrem
Senior Director of Data Science and Analytics, Lucidworks
FUTURE PROOFING APPLICATIONS
AI ensures teams are better equipped to manage application dependencies and ensure that regardless of what changes are made, applications never break and are able to seamlessly adapt to inevitable change. Instead of finding problems in production, you can find them, or do right, while developing.
Antonio Alegria
Head of AI, OutSystems
Industry News
JFrog announced its partnership with iZeno Pte Ltd, a Singapore-headquartered enterprise technology solutions provider.
Red Hat announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help organizations accelerate application modernization and cloud migrations.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the contribution of SQLMesh, an open source data transformation framework, to the Foundation by Fivetran.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. released the AI Factory Security Architecture Blueprint — a comprehensive, vendor-tested reference architecture for securing private AI infrastructure from the hardware layer to the application layer.
CMD+CTRL Security won the following awards from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine: Most Innovative Cybersecurity Training and Pioneering Secure Coding: Developer Upskilling.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced the Check Point AI Defense Plane, a unified AI security control plane designed to help enterprises govern how AI is connected, deployed, and operated across the business.
Oracle announced the latest updates to Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, a complete development platform for building, connecting, and running AI automation and agentic applications.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced that Istio has launched a host of new features designed to meet the rising needs of modern, AI-driven infrastructure while reducing operational complexity.
Chainguard announced Chainguard Repository, a single Chainguard-managed experience for pulling secure-by-default open source containers, dependencies, OS packages, virtual machine images, CI/CD workflows, and agent skills that have built-in, intelligent policies to enforce enterprise security standards.
Backslash Security announced new cross-product support for agentic AI Skills within its platform, enabling organizations to discover, assess, and apply security guardrails to Skills used across AI-native software development environments.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the graduation of Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine that enables organizations to define, manage and enforce policy-as-code across cloud native environments.
Zero Networks announced the Kubernetes Access Matrix, a real time visual map that exposes every allowed and denied rule inside Kubernetes clusters.
Apiiro announced AI Threat Modeling, a new capability within Apiiro Guardian Agent that automatically generates architecture-aware threat models to identify security and compliance risks before code exists.
GitLab released GitLab 18.10, making it easier and more affordable to use agentic AI capabilities across the entire software development lifecycle.




