The Dev’s Guide to Test Automation & How Devs Can Optimize for AI-Powered Search

📌 The Web Dev’s Guide to Test Automation: Purpose, Principles & Practice with Shea Leslein

Automated testing is more than a task—it’s a mindset. Together, we’ll break down the purpose behind test automation and how thoughtful unit and integration tests can drive quality, confidence, and speed. You’ll learn key principles for writing clean, maintainable tests and practical techniques to weave them into your daily workflow. Whether you're just getting started or refining your test strategy, this talk will help you shift from reactive testing to purposeful automation that supports your code and your team.

📌 How Developers Can Optimize for AI-Powered Search with Isaac Morey

As generative AI, voice assistants, and chat-based tools reshape how people discover content, search is no longer just about keywords. It's about context, structure, and visibility to machines that think more like humans.

This talk is a practical guide for developers who want their content to show up in AI-powered search results. We'll cover technical strategies like structured data (JSON-LD), how JavaScript frameworks affect SEO, and how to deliver content in a way that’s legible to modern AI engines. But we’ll also explore what makes content itself effective: how to structure information, write for semantic clarity, and follow SEO best practices that actually work in the real world.

Plus...
ChicagoJS's original co-founder, Justin Meyer, will give a quick overview of a new open source product!

📌 Paste Smarter: AI That Fills Out Your Forms for You (With Just One Line of HTML) with Justin Meyer

We've all been there—copying info from emails, Slack, or docs and pasting it into forms one painstaking field at a time. What if your form could just figure it out?

In this lightning talk, I’ll demo `@bitovi/ai-component-paste`, an open source web component that auto-fills your form using AI and clipboard data. No model training. No frontend refactor. Just one line of HTML, a server endpoint, and a little GPT-powered magic.

Copy. Click. Done.

If you've got 5 minutes, I’ll show you how to save your users (and yourself) hours of repetitive work.

Explore the repo and see a demo: https://github.com/bitovi/ai-component-paste

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We're so lucky to have support from various sponsors throughout the year. Bitovi, a digital product consultancy, is our primary sponsor.