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How to Test AI Agents: A Practical Guide to Reliability, Tool Use, and Hallucinations

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AI agents introduce a new challenge for software quality engineering: their outputs and actions can change depending on the user's request, conversation history, available tools, retrieved information, and model behavior. Traditional software tests often validate whether a system produces an expect…

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  1. 2026-10-22 20:04 · DEV Community — AI
    How to Test AI Agents: A Practical Guide to Reliability, Tool Use, and Hallucinations

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