Software testing

Front End Testing with GitHub Actions • Amy Kapernick • YOW! 2025

Front End Testing with GitHub Actions • Amy Kapernick • YOW! 2025

This presentation by Amy Kapernick at YOW! Australia 2025 details how to implement robust front-end testing using GitHub Actions. It covers the rationale for comprehensive front-end testing, the necessity of a live deployment preview, and practical steps for automating tests like Lighthouse for performance/accessibility and Playwright for UI validation. The talk also delves into continuous deployment workflows and explores GitHub Actions' broader utility for workflow automation beyond testing, such as generating issues from code comments.

What Is AI Code Refactoring? Agentic AI & Safe Code Changes

What Is AI Code Refactoring? Agentic AI & Safe Code Changes

This video explores AI code refactoring, differentiating between inline and autonomous agentic approaches. It highlights how AI can leverage pattern recognition for tasks like improving readability or reducing duplication, thereby addressing technical debt. A key focus is on the safety guardrails, detailing a multi-step, human-in-the-loop process involving planning, searching, reporting, human approval, patching, and verification through testing, ensuring AI-driven changes are safe for production and can integrate into CI/CD pipelines.

You're Shipping 10x More Bugs and Don't Know It

You're Shipping 10x More Bugs and Don't Know It

Evan Marshall, CTO of Ito AI, discusses how the rapid rise of AI-powered code generation is creating a critical bottleneck in software verification and QA. He explains Ito AI's approach of using AI agents for automated, runtime execution testing on every pull request to act as a force multiplier for developers and unblock enterprise teams.