> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://learning.contextqa.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started.md).

# Getting Started

- [Introduction to ContextQA](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/introduction.md): An overview of ContextQA, an AI-powered test automation platform that lets teams create, run, and maintain web, mobile, and API tests using natural language.
- [Complete Product & Workflow Guide](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/complete-product-guide.md): A complete, outcome-led guide to ContextQA web, API, mobile, Salesforce, AI-assisted, execution, reporting, integration, agent, and administration workflows.
- [Self-Serve Workspace Onboarding](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/self-serve-onboarding.md): Connect a non-production application, code repository, and team tools in the ContextQA self-serve onboarding flow, then verify the generated workspace.
- [Quickstart Guide](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/quickstart.md): A step-by-step guide to signing in, creating a test case with AI assistance, running it, and reviewing the results in under five minutes.
- [AI Testing Portfolio Lab](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/ai-testing-portfolio-lab.md): A practical, evidence-led lab for learning AI-assisted test design with a disposable application, explicit assertions, a seeded defect, and a reviewable results packet.
- [Video Walkthroughs](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/video-walkthroughs.md): Task-focused ContextQA walkthroughs for web, mobile, API, requirements, test data, Jira, dashboards, suites, and plans.
- [Tutorial: Prepare a CI/CD quality gate](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/ci-cd-tutorial.md): Prepare a reliable ContextQA test plan, scoped automation credential, and pipeline gate without relying on unpublished REST endpoints.
- [Interactive Demo](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/interactive-demo.md): Explore guided ContextQA product demos for test data, environments, AI-powered automation, and release confidence without creating an account.
- [Core Concepts](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/core-concepts.md): A practical explanation of every major building block in ContextQA, from workspaces and test cases to environments, self-healing, and the MCP server.
- [Platform Architecture](https://learning.contextqa.com/getting-started/architecture-overview.md): A detailed explanation of ContextQA's 9-stage AI execution pipeline, its 13+ specialized agents, infrastructure components, and the MCP server that connects the platform to external AI assistants.


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