Reinventing Testing Practices in the AI Era
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Eric Deandrea
IBM
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
AI features now involve agents, tools, databases, and external systems working together. Most teams still test them manually or rely on mocks that do not reflect real behavior. In this session, I will show how to test AI workflows using Testcontainers and real dependencies running locally. We will build a setup where an AI agent interacts with tools and services, and run tests against it in a reproducible environment. You will see how to spin up dependencies on demand and validate real interactions instead of guessing. This session is focused on making AI systems testable, reliable, and easier to develop.
World Congress 2026 North America
Eric Deandrea
IBM
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Vanessa Minik
GitHub
Senior Service Delivery Engineer
Michael Irwin
Docker
Principal Engineer, Developer Success
Him Raj Singh
PayPal
Manager Software Engineering