Volume 15, Issue 8 · IJARST · ISSN 2319-1783 / 2320-1126

The Evolution of Quality Engineering: From Scripted Automation to AI Autonomy A Comprehensive Literature Review

The Evolution of Quality Engineering: From Scripted Automation to AI Autonomy A Comprehensive Literature Review is an open-access, peer-reviewed research paper by Vanshita Agarwal, Dr. Vijay Gupta, published in Volume 15, Issue 8 of the International Journal of Advanced Research in Science and Technology (IJARST), a UGC-approved journal (Print ISSN 2319-1783, Online ISSN 2320-1126).

Author

Vanshita Agarwal, Dr. Vijay Gupta

Abstract

Software testing is moving away from rigid, hand-written scripts toward AI systems that can adapt on their own. This review traces how quality engineering has changed, from rule-based automation to self-adjusting test frameworks, and looks at the technology behind Autonomous Quality Agents: Large Language Models (LLMs) that generate code from requirements, Computer Vision that handles visual regression, and Reinforcement Learning that drives exploratory testing. It also examines two ongoing problems: the difficulty of understanding how AI models make decisions, and the extra work needed to keep older, script-based automation running. The review closes with a proposed framework for where autonomous software assurance is headed next. This proposed framework, termed Autonomous Quality Assurance (AQA), is organised around three layers, perception (visual and DOM-based sensing), cognition (LLM-driven reasoning and test generation), and governance (interpretability and verification), intended to give practitioners and researchers a shared structure for locating where a given tool or technique sits today and what would need to mature before autonomous testing can be trusted at industrial scale.

Keywords: Large Language Models, Autonomous Software Testing, Quality Engineering, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Autonomous Quality Assurance

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62226/ijarst20262763

 

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10.62226/ijarst20262763

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Vanshita Agarwal, Dr. Vijay Gupta — “The Evolution of Quality Engineering: From Scripted Automation to AI Autonomy A Comprehensive Literature Review.” International Journal of Advanced Research in Science and Technology (IJARST), Volume 15, Issue 8. DOI: 10.62226/ijarst20262763.

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