Imagine you’re a customer of a travel brand, looking to book a hotel through a chatbot. However, during your interaction, the chatbot suddenly crashes, making it impossible to finish booking your hotel room, and there’s no option to escalate your query to a human agent. In this case, you’re left without any resolution to your request, and the travel brand’s system failure has completely disrupted your plans. Just as with any other system, AI-powered CX channels aren’t immune to errors, but even the slightest performance issue can irreparably damage a brand’s reputation and drive customers away in droves.
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Whenever your AI-powered systems experience a defect that causes lag, downtime, or other customer-impacting issues, your brand reputation is immediately put at risk. As increasingly more customers turn to AI-driven CX channels for faster, more efficient interactions, it’s up to you to ensure your systems are always performing flawlessly and as intended.
With an automated performance testing tool, you can rest assured that you’re taking proactive steps to assure quality at scale and eliminate potential issues ahead of customer impact. And, in the event an issue arises, you’ll have the data-driven insights essential to accelerate troubleshooting and issue remediation, to significantly mitigate the fallout and number of affected customers.
Why Is Performance Testing for AI-Powered Systems Necessary?
From the earliest stages of CX development, issues may emerge and make it impossible for you to deliver quality customer interactions, and AI-powered systems are no exception. In fact, defects in your AI-driven CX channels can have serious consequences, if not properly identified and addressed. Biases and hallucinations, for example, can tarnish your brand reputation, spread harmful misinformation, and create a sense of mistrust in your business.
Performance testing tools are a necessary component of any effective CX strategy. With an automated performance testing solution, you can assure your infrastructure in a fraction of the time compared to costly and time-consuming manual processes, without introducing human error into the equation.
By conducting thorough and regular performance tests, you can:
Ensure accuracy and reliability:
Verify your AI-powered CX channels are equipped to provide accurate, reliable, and trustworthy responses to customer queries, without the risk of spreading misinformation, biases, or nonsensical answers.
Identify and eliminate biases:
Identify and understand instances when your bots are generating biased responses, then take proactive steps to improve your training data and mitigate the risk of future instances occurring.
Maintain compliance with regulatory standards:
Ensure your AI usage and AI-driven systems align with evolving regulatory and ethical standards. Additionally, protect your brand reputation and avoid costly penalties when you confirm your systems comply.
Scale up your operations:
Confirm your bots are prepared to handle routine and repetitive customer queries, allowing your human agents and team members to focus on high-priority customer concerns and tasks.
Deliver exceptional customer interactions:
Mitigate the risk that your customers will be negatively impacted, so you can deliver seamless, high-quality interactions.
As increasingly more businesses are committed to integrating AI-powered systems into their CX strategy, it’s critical to ensure that you’re realizing the maximum value of your investments, without any unnecessary risks.
3 Strategies for Performance Testing Your AI-Powered Applications
Before your AI-powered systems are ready to be deployed and released for your customers to use, you must ensure you’ve taken the appropriate steps to validate performance and mitigate potential issues.
Here are three strategies to keep in mind to prepare your systems for deployment:
- Leverage automated testing solutions: Manual testing processes are time-consuming, costly, and resource-intensive, requiring hours to assure even a fraction of your infrastructure. When it comes to managing your AI-powered systems, you can’t afford to let issues slip unnoticed and into the live environment. With an automated performance testing tool, you can accurately verify your CX quality in a fraction of the time.
- Simulate real-world customer interactions: When your customers are exposed to CX issues in the live environment, it directly damages your brand’s reputation and drives business away. Instead, you must use a performance testing tool that simulates real-world customer interactions. This way, you can verify your bots and AI-driven CX, without exposing real customers to unoptimized journeys.
- Conduct continuous, thorough tests: Testing your infrastructure once simply isn’t enough. To truly assure and improve your system performance, you must continuously test and monitor your infrastructure to proactively identify and eliminate potential issues.
It only takes a single defect to turn an exceptional customer interaction into a disaster. But by taking the proactive approach to eliminate defects ahead of customer impact, you can significantly reduce the damage to your brand reputation, build stronger customer relationships, and protect your customers against harmful AI-related risks.
Take Control Over Your AI-Powered CX Performance with Cyara
The age of AI-centric CX is upon us, and it’s up to you to manage your infrastructure, mitigate risk, and maximize the value of your AI investments. Unfortunately, there are many issues that can emerge throughout any stage of the bot development lifecycle, which threaten to expose your customers to harmful misinformation, hallucinations, security risks, and more. Even still, a few moments of downtime or lag can turn a positive experience into a sour one within the blink of an eye.
That’s why Cyara is committed to helping you regain control and visibility into your CX performance. When you choose Cyara, you’re taking a step forward into preserving your brand’s long-term success.
Cyara Botium is our award-winning conversational AI optimization platform, containing all the tools you need to test, monitor, and optimize your AI-powered CX channels. Botium empowers you to deliver better bots faster, all while mitigating potential risks and maximizing efficiency. Assure ongoing bot performance with Cyara’s end-to-end, comprehensive automated testing and monitoring.
With Botium, you can:
- Validate performance and scale with automated performance testing tools.
- Gain deep, data-driven insights with customizable and shareable dashboards.
- Accelerate bot development, without sacrificing CX quality.
- Benchmark your data to determine the best bot technology for your needs.
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