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# Reinventing Testing Practices in the AI Era


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

## Description

AI-infused applications demand a rethinking of our testing practices. Developers face a new class of challenge as LLMs become standard integration points in modern applications: non-deterministic behavior that traditional testing approaches were never designed to handle. The current wave of distributed, orchestrated, agentic AI systems is evolving fast and, if we're being honest, it smells a lot like the early days of microservices.

In this session, we'll explore how your DevOps and testing practices must evolve when you wire AI into your applications. Not all AI failures look the same, and recognizing the difference is the first step toward building systems you can actually trust. We'll walk through practical testing and observability strategies, using open source tools that give you confidence in AI-infused applications at every layer of the stack.

You'll leave with a concrete mental model for reasoning about AI failures and one grounding question: What if AI was just an API call?

## Speaker

### [Eric Deandrea](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@eric-deandrea)

Java Champion & Senior Principal Software Engineer, IBM


## Related talks at this congress

- [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
- [The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1744-the-broken-rung-how) — Tomislav Tipurić
- [Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1734-beyond-the-code) — Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
- [Evals Are Infra: Building AI Systems Developers Can Actually Trust](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1701-evals-are-infra) — Phoebe Wang

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