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What is Agentic Testing?
Agentic testing uses autonomous agents to execute goals by iterating through observation and action loops, discarding failures until success is achieved.
What: Meta tested this method at scale, finding that while the majority of output required rejection, the system's ability to automatically filter bad code made the process efficient.
Why it matters: This marks a move from human-written unit tests to agent-driven, goal-oriented testing, shifting the developer role to define outcomes rather than writing granular procedures.
Decoder
- Agentic testing: A testing paradigm where an LLM agent is provided a high-level goal and autonomously interacts with a test environment to reach that goal.
Original article
Agentic testing is where the developer states the goal and the agent works out the steps. Agentic tests set a destination, and the agent finds its way there. The loop involves the agent looking, acting, then looking again. Meta ran this loop at scale and found that only a quarter of the output was worth keeping. However, the loop works anyway because the code that doesn't pass is automatically discarded.
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