--- title: BearQ Expand Application Model: Instant AI Test Coverage... description: A walkthrough demonstrates SmartBear's Burq AI testing system, which uses a QA lead agent, tester agent, and explorer agent to automatically identify and test... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bearq-expand-application-model-instant-ai-test-coverage-for-new-features-emihm5t30 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: BearQ Expand Application Model: Instant AI Test Coverage for New Features | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough demonstrates SmartBear's Burq AI testing system, which uses a QA lead agent, tester agent, and explorer agent to automatically identify and test... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bearq-expand-application-model-instant-ai-test-coverage-for-new-features-emihm5t30 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eMIhm5T30.png og:image:alt: BearQ Expand Application Model: Instant AI Test Coverage for New Features og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # BearQ Expand Application Model: Instant AI Test Coverage for New Features **[Execute Automation](https://daily.dev/sources/executeautomation)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough demonstrates SmartBear's Burq AI testing system, which uses a QA lead agent, tester agent, and explorer agent to automatically identify and test functional areas of an application. The video focuses on the 'Expand Application Model' feature, which lets users manually trigger the explorer agent to investigate a specific new feature (a recently merged search functionality change) rather than waiting for the scheduled exploration. The agent explores the UI, runs many permutation-based tests (search by name, email, combinations, special characters), updates its internal knowledge base/application model, and then generates new tests based on what it learned. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the expand application model feature in SmartBear Burq? It is an option that lets you manually force the Burq AI system's explorer agent to investigate a specific functional area of your application rather than waiting for its scheduled exploration task. This is useful when a new feature was just merged and needs test coverage immediately, such as a newly added search functionality with name, email, and pagination options. _Teams rolling out AI-driven QA tooling can track feature updates like this one on daily.dev._ ### How do the QA lead, explorer, and tester agents work together in SmartBear Burq? The QA lead agent manages overall test strategy and orchestrates the other two agents, instructing them when new functionality or issues are found. The explorer agent scans the application to build a list of pages and features needing tests, and the tester agent then executes tests against that list, including permutations like name and email searches with special characters. _Anyone comparing multi-agent QA tools can follow this kind of architecture breakdown on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Autonomous testing with Jira and BearQ](https://daily.dev/posts/autonomous-testing-with-jira-and-bearq-dld5ttang) · Atlassian · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [SmartBear Delivers AI Enhancements Across Entire Software Application Testing Lifecycle](https://daily.dev/posts/smartbear-delivers-ai-enhancements-across-entire-software-application-testing-lifecycle-0lpqububr) · SD Times · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [SmartBear Adds Computer Vision Capability to Testing Platform](https://daily.dev/posts/smartbear-adds-computer-vision-capability-to-testing-platform-wtrmtoar8) · DevOps.com · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: 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