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Testing Chatbots & AI Agents: Where Most Companies Go Wrong

By: Nilesh Jain

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Published on: July 16, 2025

When a major Indian e-commerce brand rolled out its customer support chatbot, everything looked perfect until user complaints spiked and conversations looped endlessly. They missed one crucial piece: chatbot testing services.

In India, launching a conversational agent isn’t enough. You need AI agent testing solutions and chatbot quality assurance tailored for diverse languages, platforms, and user behaviors. With Vervali’s local expertise, you’ll learn where most teams go wrong and how to avoid those pitfalls.

Common Chatbot Testing Mistakes

  • Manual-only testing: Relying solely on human testers leads to missed conversational permutations. Without simulating edge cases or random user behaviors, the bot quickly breaks in production.

  • Testing happy paths only: Most bots stumble with off-script user inputs. Test teams often validate only predefined conversations, leaving out non-linear, accidental, or emotion-driven queries.

  • No performance benchmarks: Without analytics, optimization is guesswork. Many teams lack visibility into response time, fallback rate, and completion metrics.

These errors can turn any chatbot into a liability, especially at enterprise scale in India’s fast-moving sectors like fintech, logistics, and healthcare.

What Smart Bot Testing Looks Like

Integrated into enterprise chatbot testing, a strong framework includes:

  • Automated chatbot testing services to cover thousands of test variations

  • Conversational AI testing using real user logs to simulate actual use cases

  • Regression testing to catch new breaks early as NLP models evolve

  • Edge case handling to check for sarcasm, spelling errors, accents, and slang

At Vervali, we apply the same rigor we bring to API performance testing,,mobile automation and security testing.

We combine automated and human-in-the-loop approaches to ensure bots understand context, sentiment, and business logic in Indian scenarios.

Mistakes We Consistently Fix

Through years of testing enterprise bots in India, here are the consistent patterns we help companies fix:

  • Bots misinterpreting inputs due to regional language variations (e.g., "thik hai," "acha," or Hinglish)

  • Losing session context during a long conversation flow or escalation

  • Bots give generic responses when facing spelling mistakes or slang

  • Fallbacks that don’t guide users to the next steps, frustrating them

  • Lack of test coverage for compliance-critical sectors like finance and healthcare

Avoiding these requires a chatbot testing checklist tailored to Indian user journeys.

India-Specific Testing Challenges

Testing chatbots in India brings distinct challenges that can’t be ignored:

  • Multilingual diversitys: Bots need to understand and respond in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, and others, often mixed within a single session.

  • Device fragmentation: Users may access bots on budget Android phones with slow networks or 2G fallback.

  • Typo-heavy inputs: Many users type phonetically or make grammatical mistakes.

  • Security and data compliance: Especially for BFSI and healthcare sectors, adherence to Indian data privacy guidelines is critical.

Only a localized QA strategy, like Vervali’s, can address these effectively.

Testing AI Agents at Scale in Indian Enterprises

Large Indian enterprises often deploy multiple chatbots across use cases: onboarding, customer support, lead capture, and internal HR workflows.

Testing them involves:

  • Context transfer between bots (e.g., from support to billing)

  • Personalization based on user location, language, and role

  • Integrations with CRMs, payment systems, WhatsApp, and IVR

  • Failover handling when one service is down (e.g., chatbot to call center)

This is where our full-service software testing and QA services come into play.

Chatbot Testing Best Practices: Checklist

Here's the checklist we use during chatbot QA audits for Indian clients:

  • Intent recognition and misclassification testing

  • Entity extraction across regional variants

  • Context retention over 4–5 turns

  • Response accuracy in Hindi/English mixed queries

  • Spellcheck and phonetic variation handling

  • Fallback intent coverage with escalation paths

  • WhatsApp, UPI, and payment gateway integration validation

  • Accessibility testing for government and inclusive bots

  • Performance testing under 10k+ concurrent users

  • Weekly regression testing is built into CI pipelines

Let’s Fix Your Bot Testing Strategy

If your bot isn’t generating leads, resolving tickets, or delighting users, it’s likely not your AI’s fault. It’s the testing. Vervali brings:

  • End‑to‑end chatbot testing services for Indian platforms and audiences

  • Region-specific QA playbooks covering behavior, accents, and device types

  • Automated + human QA blend tailored for enterprise scale

  • Consulting for AI chatbot improvement with real test data

We work across Indian sectors: finance, insurance, education, public services, e-commerce, and logistics. You name it, we’ve tested it.

Get your free chatbot QA audit

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

It involves local language inputs, device variations, and culturally influenced behavior patterns.

At launch, after each new feature release, and monthly for evolving user trends.

Yes, automated testing covers scale, manual testing covers nuance.

Indian users interact differently, with slang, emojis, and code-switching. Local QA understands this.

Yes. You’ll reduce bounce rates, improve CSAT, and increase lead conversion.

Yes, including automation and security testing for WhatsApp bots and UPI payment integration.

Absolutely. We follow accessibility standards and compliance for public portals.

Contact us at [email protected] or request a free bot audit. We’ll take it from there.

Yes. Our QA engineers and consultants are based in Pune, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, familiar with Indian platforms, tools, and user behaviors.

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