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Revisit Old Problems with New Eyes!

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Talkat TestMu Conference 2026 · 2026-08-19..08-21· [ai-assisted-development]

speaker

name:Pramod Yadav
linkedin:pramodkyadav

resources

video:https://youtu.be/jhAbgIvw7go
slides:none on file

summary

Argues agents let one engineer build and ship things that used to need deep pockets: Taxly deployed in under two weeks is a VAT‑filing app with ~85% test coverage and full check suites; an MCP server to surface PR comments in the developer’s local VS Code chat terminal; and a GitHub Action that uses the Anthropic SDK for agentic semantic versioning that analyzes PR diffs to label breaking/minor/patch before merge. Shows trunk‑based + feature‑flag deployments, canary/beta targets, and instant soft rollbacks.

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chapters (31)

  1. 0:00Revisit Old Problems With New Eyes
  2. 1:10Speaker Intro - Pramod Yadav, Test Engineering Manager, ABN AMRO
  3. 2:13Building a VAT Filing Product, a PR Review MCP Server and More
  4. 2:45The Constraints That Existed Last Year Simply Don't Exist Now
  5. 3:17Live Poll: How Well Do You Understand Continuous Delivery?
  6. 5:26The Continuous Delivery Diagram: Six Swim Lanes Explained
  7. 7:29The Planning Phase and Where Feature Flags Fit In
  8. 9:34The Commit Phase: Pre-Commit Hooks, Linting, Affected Tests
  9. 11:38Semantic Versioning and Why Existing Solutions Are Fragile
  10. 13:11Agentic Semantic Versioning: Letting an Agent Judge Breaking Changes
  11. 14:44Why That Call Belongs Inside the Pull Request, Not After the Merge
  12. 15:14Continuous Integration: Checks, Coverage Gates and Merge Policies
  13. 16:15Taxly: A Real Product With 85% Coverage and Full Check Suites
  14. 16:45Skills, MCP Servers and Test Layers Inside a Real Repo
  15. 18:17Continuous Delivery: Building the Image and Deploying to Test
  16. 19:19Using Agents for Exploratory Testing - and Being Impressed
  17. 20:21Deploying to Production With the Feature Flag Off
  18. 21:22Dark Launching and Shrinking the Blast Radius
  19. 21:52Canary Releases, Beta Groups and A/B Experiments
  20. 22:23Instant Soft Rollbacks Instead of Hot Fixes
  21. 23:24When It Isn't Behind a Flag: Rollback vs Hotfix Branch
  22. 24:26TaskFlow: Demonstrating Trunk-Based Development With Feature Toggles
  23. 25:27The Same Commit Behaving Differently in CI, Staging and Production
  24. 27:02Repos You Can Use to Demonstrate These Concepts Yourself
  25. 28:35Roles May Break Vertically Instead of Horizontally
  26. 31:09Q&A: How AI Helps Without Overreaching
  27. 33:13Q&A: Feature Flags vs Short-Lived Branches
  28. 34:48Q&A: The Real Risk of Over-Reliance and Skill Atrophy
  29. 36:22Q&A: Which Old Testing Problem AI Is Finally Cracking
  30. 37:55Q&A: Test Data, Environments and Flakiness - Which to Attack First
  31. 39:28Q&A: Who Is Accountable When an Autonomous Agent Causes an Incident

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