Revisit Old Problems with New Eyes!

Watch this session, where 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐝 𝐘𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐯, Test Engineering Manager at ABN AMRO Clearing, argues that agents have become a great equalizer - putting within reach of any engineer what used to require deep pockets or niche skills. Learn how someone with domain knowledge can now build and ship products at a pace that was not previously possible. Pramod also walks through what he actually built during 2026: Taxly, a VAT filing app deployed in under two weeks; an MCP server that pulls pull-request comments into a developer's local VS Code chat terminal; and a GitHub action that integrates the Anthropic SDK into the PR process to make SemVer more robust and readable. 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: 0:00 Revisit Old Problems With New Eyes 1:10 Speaker Intro - Pramod Yadav, Test Engineering Manager, ABN AMRO 2:13 Building a VAT Filing Product, a PR Review MCP Server and More 2:45 The Constraints That Existed Last Year Simply Don't Exist Now 3:17 Live Poll: How Well Do You Understand Continuous Delivery? 5:26 The Continuous Delivery Diagram: Six Swim Lanes Explained 7:29 The Planning Phase and Where Feature Flags Fit In 9:34 The Commit Phase: Pre-Commit Hooks, Linting, Affected Tests 11:38 Semantic Versioning and Why Existing Solutions Are Fragile 13:11 Agentic Semantic Versioning: Letting an Agent Judge Breaking Changes 14:44 Why That Call Belongs Inside the Pull Request, Not After the Merge 15:14 Continuous Integration: Checks, Coverage Gates and Merge Policies 16:15 Taxly: A Real Product With 85% Coverage and Full Check Suites 16:45 Skills, MCP Servers and Test Layers Inside a Real Repo 18:17 Continuous Delivery: Building the Image and Deploying to Test 19:19 Using Agents for Exploratory Testing - and Being Impressed 20:21 Deploying to Production With the Feature Flag Off 21:22 Dark Launching and Shrinking the Blast Radius 21:52 Canary Releases, Beta Groups and A/B Experiments 22:23 Instant Soft Rollbacks Instead of Hot Fixes 23:24 When It Isn't Behind a Flag: Rollback vs Hotfix Branch 24:26 TaskFlow: Demonstrating Trunk-Based Development With Feature Toggles 25:27 The Same Commit Behaving Differently in CI, Staging and Production 27:02 Repos You Can Use to Demonstrate These Concepts Yourself 28:35 Roles May Break Vertically Instead of Horizontally 31:09 Q&A: How AI Helps Without Overreaching 33:13 Q&A: Feature Flags vs Short-Lived Branches 34:48 Q&A: The Real Risk of Over-Reliance and Skill Atrophy 36:22 Q&A: Which Old Testing Problem AI Is Finally Cracking 37:55 Q&A: Test Data, Environments and Flakiness - Which to Attack First 39:28 Q&A: Who Is Accountable When an Autonomous Agent Causes an Incident Register for TestMuConf 2027: https://www.testmuai.com/testmuconf-2027/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=&utm_campaign=revisit_old_problems_with_new_eyes #TestMuConf #TestMuAI #AIAgents #BuildInPublic #MCP #DeveloperTools #SideProjects #AgenticAI