Over 90% of developers now use AI daily. Yet 46% of teams still test manually. As agents take on more of the SDLC—planning, coding, testing, delivery—Forrester cautions that risk is shifting from bad suggestions to agents executing changes across your pipelines unchecked.

Applitools is named in this report as a testing vendor that has innovated its Visual AI helping you evolve with this shift. Our take: agentic speed only works with deterministic verification—testing that tells you exactly what changed and why, without drowning your team in false positives.

Inside the report:

• How to scale safely: Forrester’s 90-day framework for guardrails, kill switches, and accountability

• Where industries stand: Adoption maturity, risk tolerance, and compliance benchmarks across 6 sectors

• What’s maturing fastest: Why autonomous testing platforms are outpacing other ASD tools at closing the quality gap

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