Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, co-founder of Gitar (now part of Sonar), explains why AI-driven growth in PR volume and size turns CI and code review into a bottleneck, and presents agentic validation as the way out: automated review, CI failure analysis, autofix, and auto-merge, built up step by step as trust grows, combined with traditional program analysis in SonarQube.
Gabriel Spencer-Harper, co-founder and CEO of Meticulous, explains why assertion-based tests cannot keep pace with AI-generated code and how near-exhaustive frontend verification with zero developer effort works. The talk covers record-and-replay visual diffing on every pull request, network mocking, a deterministic browser, and coverage-guided flow selection that makes code coverage meaningful.
Trisha Gee delivers a compelling talk on Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) for testing, dissecting common pain points in writing, troubleshooting, and running tests. She advocates for strategic use of IDEs, advanced tooling like build caches and predictive test selection (leveraging ML), and a disciplined approach to test design to overcome these challenges, emphasizing that good tests serve as crucial living documentation.