2026 Sembi Software Quality Pulse Report

What to expect:

• ›How AI-generated code is changing the demand on QA, and why most teams see only minor or mixed impact from AI testing so far
• ›Why QA and security struggle to align, what blocks them, and where investment is going next
• ›Top QA priorities and challenges, and how much testing teams have actually automated

From the report

• 57%

  of QA tests are automated on average.

• 53%

  of respondents' code is now AI-generated or AI-assisted.

• 61%

  of teams report minor, mixed, negative, or no impact from AI-driven testing so far.

• 33%

  are very or extremely confident they can scale QA and security together.

See where your team stands against these numbers: take the Merito + TestRail Quality Engineering Maturity Assessment.