AI Testing
Testing AI Systems for Risk: Bias, Accuracy, and Robustness Checks
Traditional software has deterministic behavior: the same input always produces the same output. AI systems break this contract.
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Traditional software has deterministic behavior: the same input always produces the same output. AI systems break this contract.
Compliance Testing
The EU AI Act became enforceable in phases starting 2024, but August 2026 marks the deadline for full obligations on high-risk AI systems.
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AI chatbots fail in ways that traditional software doesn't. They misunderstand intent, lose context across turns, make up information, break character, and occasionally say things that would horrify your legal team. Testing them requires a different mental model from testing deterministic systems — you're testing behaviors under
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LLMs hallucinate. They generate plausible-sounding text that is factually wrong, cite papers that don't exist, quote statistics that were never measured, and confidently describe events that never happened. If your product uses an LLM to generate content that users trust — customer support answers, medical information, legal summaries,
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ML models degrade in ways that traditional software doesn't. Code doesn't spontaneously get worse — but a model trained on March data can silently degrade by June as the distribution of real-world inputs shifts. A retrained model can score higher on aggregate metrics while regressing on
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A/B testing AI features is harder than testing traditional software. Changing a button color produces a measurable, binary outcome — users click or they don't. Changing an LLM prompt produces different text outputs, and measuring which output is "better" requires defining what better even means for
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AI has changed what's possible in test automation. The traditional approach — writing code to drive browsers, maintaining brittle selectors, spending hours fixing tests when UI changes — is no longer the only option. AI-powered test automation lets you describe tests in plain language, generates test steps from user
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Adding AI features to your SaaS is easy. Shipping them with the same quality bar as the rest of your product is hard.
AI Testing
Weights & Biases built its reputation on ML experiment tracking — recording every hyperparameter, metric, and artifact from model training runs.
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Every time you change a prompt, update a model version, modify your retrieval pipeline, or adjust a system instruction, you've potentially introduced a regression. Unlike traditional software regressions — where a function returns the wrong value and a unit test catches it — LLM regressions are subtle. The output format
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Most LLM applications fail at the infrastructure layer, not the model layer. Your prompt is fine. Your retrieval is fine.
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LLM applications fail in ways that traditional monitoring misses entirely. A REST API either returns 200 or it doesn't.