AI Agent Workflows for Accelerated Development Cycles

In this talk, speaker Andy Piper, VP of Engineering at Diffblue, will spotlight how in today's fast-paced software development landscape, efficient testing is crucial for maintaining high levels of code quality and accelerating release cycles. Discover how the latest AI agent workflows are advancing beyond the capabilities of AI assistants to transform foundational unit testing, reduce developer toil and enable development teams to achieve unprecedented speed and accuracy in their testing processes.

Attendees will gain insights into:

  • The paradigm shift that AI agents make to developer testing workflows 

  • The latest best practices for implementing AI-driven unit testing in Java projects

  • Strategies for overcoming common challenges in automated test generation

Quantifiable benefits observed in development team productivity and software reliability


Speaker

Andy Piper

VP of Engineering @Diffblue

Andy is VP of Engineering at Diffblue, and was previously Head of Product Engineering at CBRE and the CTO of Push Technology Limited. 

Andy has more than 20 years of combined engineering and technology leadership, and extensive Java experience which includes time at BEA and Oracle. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge. 

Speaking credits

  • Devoxx UK 2022 
  • Devoxx Belgium 2022
  •  QCon London 2022 & 2024
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Session Sponsored By

Diffblue Cover’s AI automatically writes complete Java unit tests that catch regressions sooner

Date

Monday Nov 18 / 05:05PM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Pacific LM

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