AI is accelerating software development. Testing needs to keep up.

As teams ship faster, traditional testing struggles to keep pace, creating gaps in coverage, more manual work, and costly handoffs across development and QA.

That’s where autonomous testing comes in.

SmartBear BearQ™ for Jira brings an assignable testing agent directly into the Jira workflow. Teams can assign the work item directly to BearQ or @mention BearQ in Rovo Chat to start testing, giving the agent the context it needs to understand acceptance criteria, explore applications, generate test coverage, and identify defects. As applications evolve, BearQ adapts its testing around real user journeys and edge cases, helping teams move from planned changes to validated results faster. Teams set the autonomy level and decide where human oversight is needed.

In this webinar, SmartBear and Atlassian will explore what changes when testing becomes part of the flow of work. We’ll follow a work item from BearQ’s autonomous testing through SmartBear Zephyr® and into Rovo to see how testing connects to release readiness in Jira.

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand where traditional test automation struggles to keep pace with AI-driven development

• See how BearQ, an assignable testing agent, brings autonomous testing directly into Jira

• Explore how autonomous testing can uncover user journeys and edge cases that scripted tests may miss

• Consider the guardrails and governance needed to scale agentic testing with humans in the loop

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