Robin Gupta

Robin Gupta

@smilinrobin

World's first open source testing agent

Submitted Jan 26, 2025

🔍 About the review

Modern test automation tools face two key challenges 🧩:

  • Complexity: Non-technical teams struggle with existing tools.
  • Maintenance: Traditional test execution lacks intelligent state based execution and interactions.

These inefficiencies delay releases, increase costs, and reduce software quality.

Hercules, an open-source project by TestZeus, redefines end-to-end testing by leveraging AI agents to:
✅ Execute natural language tests
✅ Interact with browsers, APIs, or other interfaces
✅ Bid adieu to automation maintenance, as we see how multi agentic systems “REAct” to the application at hand.

This presentation will showcase how Hercules tackles core testing challenges, its value to the software development lifecycle, and its impact on the modern testing landscape.

🚀 About Hercules: world’s first open source end to end testing agent

Hercules is the world’s first open-source testing agent, built to handle the toughest testing tasks so you don’t have to. It turns simple, easy-to-write Gherkin steps into fully automated end to end tests—no coding skills needed. Whether you’re working with tricky platforms like Salesforce or running tests in your CI/CD pipeline, Hercules adapts to your needs and takes care of the details. With Hercules, testers can perform UI/API/Accessibility/Security/Mobile and Visual testing. All of this thanks to a multi agentic framework under the hood.
In this session , we will pop the hood, and see how this multiagentic solution works by utilizing a small army of agents like Browser agent, API agent, etc. and tools like Playwright to ensure that the user can tackle the most herculean tasks of test automation.

🎯 Key takeaways for the audience

  • Warm introduction to multi-agentic architectures.
  • Notes on cost and prompt optimization
  • Deploying agents to production and “gotchas”
  • Building in Open Source and Building for Extensibility.

🎯 Target audience

  • Testers
  • Developers
  • QA Managers
  • AI/ML Practitioners
  • Open-source Enthusiasts

📌 GitHub Repository

🔗 Hercules on GitHub

🎤 About the Presenter

Robin Gupta is the human at the helm for TestZeus, the company behind world’s first open source testing agent. He is a versatile engineering leader with more than 15 years of experience in software delivery across startups, scale-ups and enterprises. He is a System 1 thinker, and has led products contributing to $10M ARR. With a metrics-driven approach, he has elevated engineering maturity of product teams for diverse domains such as BFSI, EdTech, Retail, and Developer Experience. Beyond work, he mentors at ADPList and Plato, contributes to open-source projects like Selenium and has authored books and international courses on software testing. He is also a recognized speaker at international events such as Dreamforce (by Salesforce) and Selenium Conference.

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