January 2026 Updates

Last updated:

January 31, 2026

Product

Connect Your AI tool to Real Testing Context with MCP (Available for Corporate Accounts)
PractiTest supports Model Context Protocol to connect AI tools like Claude directly to your projects. This allows AI outputs to become real testing actions, such as generating tests, linking them to requirements, and adding them to test sets for execution, all with full project context. Learn more in the MCP documentation.

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Confidently Validate Past Releases Using Test Versioning (Available for Corporate Accounts)
Test Versioning preserves the exact version of a test as it existed at the time of a release. By saving labeled snapshots at the end of a sprint or release, you can later rerun the right tests for older versions or patches, even after tests have changed. This ensures fixes are validated against the correct product version. Read more in our help page.

Prioritize Tests that Matter Most with Value Score (Available for Corporate Accounts)
Test Value Score gives clearer insight into which tests deliver the most value. By ranking tests based on real execution behavior and coverage, you can spend your limited testing time on what actually reduces risk and improve or retire lower-value tests. Learn more in our help page.

Link Multiple Test Sets to a Requirement for Broader Coverage
You can now link up to 10 Test Sets to a single Requirement. This extends requirement coverage beyond a single test set, allowing the requirement’s status to reflect execution progress across multiple test sets and their associated instances. Read more about it in the Requirements documentation.

Coming Up

PractiTest Live Training
Join our Customer Success team for a live training session and ask everything you want to know.

Europe: Wednesday, February 11, 16:00 CET
North America: Wednesday, February 25, 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST
Asia-Pacific: Wednesday, February 18, 1:00 PM AWST / 4:00 PM AEDT

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Orchestrate AI for Testing – A Webinar with Joel Montvelisky
Join us for a practical session on orchestrating AI across the testing lifecycle. We’ll present PractiTest’s MCP approach and show how AI-assisted analysis, test design, execution, and insights can be connected using real testing context.

Date: Tuesday, February 17
Time: 11:00 AM EST | 17:00 CET

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PractiTest and Beyond

State of Testing™ 2026 Report Is Live
The full State of Testing™ 2026 Report is now live, revealing the key trends shaping QA this year. Discover the “AI Paradox” and why 65% of the industry feels growing pressure around AI adoption, along with what the data says about where testing is headed.

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The Hidden Cost of “Run Everything” Testing (And What to Do Instead)
When release time is limited, running every test can create false confidence. This article explains why not all tests are equal and how QA teams can move from gut-based decisions to evidence-driven prioritization, focusing on the tests that actually reduce risk and matter most for each release.

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