Agentic QA Is a Budget Event: Where the $66B Testing Market Moves Next
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TL;DR: Agentic QA is QA in which AI agents plan, write, run, and maintain tests, with an independent layer of verification that the software actually works. It doesn't reduce the QA budget at all. It
TL;DR: Agentic QA is QA in which AI agents plan, write, run, and maintain tests, with an independent layer of verification that the software actually works. It doesn't reduce the QA budget at all. It just shifts it away from the manual labor of writing scripts and maintaining scripts and into execution rails at agent scale with independent proof. Test generation becomes cheap. Verification becomes the product. On 6 October 2026, Gartner published its Magic Quadrant for Agentic Software Quality A
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