Introduction

Software testing and quality assurance (QA) have seen remarkable evolution since the early days of manual test cases and spreadsheets. Automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, and Cypress brought scalability, but testers still write scripts, update locators, maintain CI pipelines, and react to broken tests. Today, a new wave of intelligent automation—Agentic AI—promises something far more transformative: self-driving testing systems that think, plan, act, and adapt on their own.