Release Notes

11 Cognitive Automation
We’ve started referring to this capability as Precision Testing. And the more data sets that we add to it (as-
tested configurations, change sets, etc.), the more precision it provides in its recommendations. With insights
such as these, we’re able to justify our calculated risks and in some cases earn ourselves an Efficiency
Dividend:
1) Shorten the test cycle (and possibly the release cycle)
2) Re-allocate the testing capacity to higher-value efforts such as exploratory testing
3) Re-allocate the testing capacity to deliver more features
2.4 Other SDLC tasks
Other tasks that are on the radar of our Dell EMC Engineering teams include the application of Analytics or AI
solutions to assist with the:
▪ Prediction of duplicate defects from automated test runs, so that we can avoid wasting
valuable time triaging a previously known defect that simply has not yet been resolved.
▪ Triage of Test Case Failures to aid in the rapid identification of root-cause, down to and
including, the offending source code module or developer check-in.
▪ Prediction of high-risk areas of code where additional testing, exploratory or otherwise, is
warranted.