Inside the dark testing factory:
How to govern autonomous testing at enterprise scale

Melinda Ballou

Research Director, AI Assurance, ALM, Quality and Portfolio Strategies at IDC Research

Ingo Philipp

VP, Product Management at UiPath

Many teams can already build autonomous testing agents. Far fewer have worked out how to run them at enterprise scale and govern them. That's the gap that decides whether autonomy compounds quality — or compounds risk. The dark testing factory is an emerging answer to that operating-model gap: a self-operating quality system guided by human leadership, where agents and automations handle more of the execution, while people handle judgment and governance. Speakers from UiPath and a guest speaker from IDC pull back the curtain on the drivers and context behind autonomous testing at enterprise scale, and on why governance isn't a constraint on autonomy — it's what makes autonomy trustworthy. Register now to learn:

• How testing maturity is changing and drivers pushing teams from automated to agentic to evolving autonomous software quality strategies.

• Why “Autonomous" without "governed" right next to it is a red flag, not a feature.

• The guardrails, approval layers, and human oversight needed to make autonomous testing safer to scale.

• Who owns the outcome when an agent takes operational agency — and how you prove what was tested, why, and who approved it.

• Why governance and orchestration — not more agents — is what holds agentic testing and evolving autonomous strategies together.

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