World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

SMART Test Automation - the experience of legacy transformation

Leszek Włodarski

Can too many unit tests derail a legacy migration? Discover how one engineering team abandoned the traditional test pyramid to safely modernize 3 million lines of banking code.

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Challenges of applying test automation to legacy code

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Real-world impact of modernizing automated internal operational tools

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