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# Testing AI Workflows Locally with Testcontainers


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

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.

## Speaker

### [Anna Chernyshova](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@anna-chernyshova)

Sr Solutions Engineer @ Docker 


## Related talks at this congress

- [Reinventing Testing Practices in the AI Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1724-reinventing-testing) — Eric Deandrea
- [Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1693-who-tests-the-ai) — Him Raj Singh
- [From Idea to Production with AI: Agentic Development in Practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1418-from-idea-to) — Daniel Ostrovsky
- [Agents Can't Iterate Against Tests That Lie](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1700-agents-can-t-iterate) — Rocky Warren

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## Links

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