Agentic Testing: Where AI Agents Fit in Your Testing Stack
Decide when to use agentic testing vs. deterministic E2E tests, choose the right infrastructure setup, and manage costs in agentic test loops
4 sections · 8 lessons
Course outline
The New Testing Paradigm
- Tests enforce journeys, agents verify goals
- The fourth layer of the testing pyramid
Infrastructure and Reliability
- MCP vs. CLI: why the execution environment matters more than the model
- Choosing your agentic testing infrastructure
Cost Management in Agentic Loops
- Why context transmission — not reasoning — drives cost
- The cheaper model paradox
When to Use Agents vs. Deterministic Tests
- Where deterministic tests still win
- Where agents win: exploration, debugging, and production bug reproduction