India, Jan. 27 -- Shrish Ashtaputre, Senior Technical Director Engineering, Calsoft takes us around this new software 'proving ground' that shows how AI is influencing shift-left testing, AI-assisted quality engineering, preventive testing mindsets, security-integrated validation, intent validation, synthetic monitoring, API-level load simulations and edge-case testing; while he also confronts the dangers of automation, jailbreaking/ prompt manipulation risks and the challenges of skeuomorphism.

QA used to come in at the end, checking if things worked. Now it's part of how things are - built in the first place - driving quality decisions instead of just verifying them. We've seen the rise in shift-left testing, AI-assisted quality engine...