Tricentis ‘perfects’ AI generated code for businesses in APAC

Damien Wong, Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan (JAPAC) shares more about how Tricentis is helping organizations in the region better manage AI-generated code.

AI-generated code has been a game changer for organizations, especially with it comes to developing and deploying new use cases. According to the 2025 Tricentis Quality Transformation Report, nearly two-thirds (63%) of organizations deploy code without fully testing it, and over 8 in 10 (81%) report financial impacts from software defects exceeding $500k annually.

As AI accelerates development and delivery, the need for adaptive, autonomous testing becomes critical. One vendor that is focused on ensuring the quality of AI-generated code is Tricentis. A Leader in the first-ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools, Tricentis’ capabilities to run continuous testing and quality engineering with its portfolio of products provide a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing.

In Asia Pacific, AI-generated code is seeing faster adoption, especially as organizations look to develop and deploy more use cases faster to not only meet customer demand but also be ahead of the competition.

Damien Wong, Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan (JAPAC) shares more about how Tricentis is helping organizations in the region better manage AI-generated code.

According to Wong, the biggest problem with AI-generated code is that is has been proven to be highly buggy. As organizations are pushing out code at exponential speeds, a lot of that code is buggy or defective, or has vulnerabilities. As a result of that, the problem now becomes not the development, but the validation of the code, which is where Tricentis comes in.

“Traditionally, testing could be done manually with people actually going and testing it. When Tricentis came in, we brought in AI-driven model-based test automation, meaning we scan the applications, model out the business processes, and then be able to help drive a much more structured way of codeless automated testing. So that was how we revolutionized this space and changed the whole paradigm,” said Wong.

Wong explained that what Tricentis is seeing now is AI is also being baked much more into testing and quality assurance, and that's where they have also been leading the way.

“We can think of it as helping organizations move from the initial steps of using AI to test, to now provide very advanced autonomous ways or genetic ways of using AI to test. And I think this is really where, we’ve helped people with the early stages of neural network-based, machine learning-based AI, so they can detect patterns and be able to help leverage that to identify where the risks are, to be able to do self-healing, etc and moving on to much more generative, meaning that it can test the applications for them. So I think that's kind of where we are coming into the picture and helping drive that kind of change in the region,” explained Wong.

Growth in APAC

Looking at Tricentis’ presence in APAC, the vendor first started in Australia in the region and slowly expanded into Singapore and India. However, over the past few years, they have expanded massively and now have entities in Korea, Japan and in the Philippines, with go-to-market operations in India as well as in Greater China.

Wong pointed out that Tricentis experienced a 26% YoY growth in 2024 with the APAC region experiencing a 42% growth YoY in the same year as well. Tricentis’ partner business also grew 48% YoY in 2024.

“Our partner business was growing faster than the APAC overall business. And then if you look at the percentage of our business that's partner fulfilled, it's about partner-attached, partner-touched business was about over 85%. The majority of our business is partner-touched. And that business is growing faster than the rest of the business. So, as you can see, we're very partner-centric, partner-oriented and for a good reason,” said Wong.

Wong pointed out that Tricentis’ go-to-market strategy does not work on every company, and they resonate strongly with large enterprises.

“If you think about it, people who need our products typically tend to have very large, complex IT landscapes and environments, which are highly interconnected. These are organizations such as banks, telcos, utilities, airlines, large manufacturers, large government agencies, and such. These guys tend to have many applications in their environment that are heavily interconnected. A lot of changes that happen may result in ripple effects. So, we then become very relevant players in that,” said Wong.

While Tricentis provides the technology and software, Wong explained that they need almost a white-glove approach to addressing these large enterprises. And this is where their partners come in.

‘On our own, we would find it difficult to have great value propositions. Think of it as a very complex piece of technology that a person buys, and ultimately, we want our customers to have these capabilities in-house. And when you build a capability, it's not just technology. You want people to process their technology in conjunction with that to help them have these capabilities,” he added.

“Because the best technology, without the right way to use it, and the right people who will train how to use it, is not going to yield you a lot of value and benefit. And that's just our philosophy. So, our partners help us address that gap,” said Wong.

For Wong, partners bring in the knowledge and best practices especially in the way that they can connect industry domain expertise relevant to what technology we have, and how they can apply it to business environments and processes.

Tricentis in 2026

Looking ahead, Wong stated that Tricentis is always looking at expanding its footprint. But this would ultimately depend on the state of the markets that they are hoping to enter.

“We don't want a market that we're using and determining the demand based on what the prospects in the market are telling us or what the partners in the markets are telling us. We've expanded across Southeast Asia because we see a huge growth in terms of app modernization and innovation across the region. When we invested in India, it was viewed as an export driven market. But now, the domestic economy is booming. There's a huge growth in digital capability locally, not just for export. That's kind of why we invested in growing our footprint to service the domestic large enterprises in India,” explained Wong.

Wong also pointed out that this was the same scenario in Japan. Tricentis has initially gone in primarily through an export model. But now, they have a full-fledged team in Japan.

“In Japan, they have an acute shortage of human talent. They need to pivot automation. They're also recognizing the need for digital transformation and innovation. This mismatch in the skills gap is actually impacting them. Therefore, going into the market at this time is actually a good time for us to help address those needs. We will continue to look out for markets where we see that we have a place in terms of addressing the needs of those enterprises,” said Wong.

“We have to also ensure that we are growing awareness of these capabilities, and that we are then able to address that appropriately with our partners. We are continuously scanning the markets and we're also working based on the feedback of our partners. We'll continue to take that feedback from our partners in the ecosystem,” concluded Wong.