Developing with Testability in Mind | Atlanta Meet-up

The Test Tribe 3rd Atlanta Meetup – Developing with Testability in Mind

A system can work exactly as designed and still be unnecessarily difficult to test.
When testability is considered only after development is complete, QA teams may have limited visibility into system behaviour, fewer ways to isolate failures, and more difficulty validating both hardware and software.

At The Test Tribe’s 3rd Atlanta Meetup, Marc Karasek will explore how embedded systems can be designed with testability in mind from the beginning, and how earlier collaboration between engineering and QA can make validation easier without compromising the underlying design.

Event Details

• Date: 01 September 2026
• Time: 06:00 PM – 08:30 PM ET
• Venue: Exact location to be announced soon

What's on the Agenda?

Developing with Testability
Speaker: Marc Karasek
Principal Software Engineer

Testability is easier to build into a system than to add after the system has already been designed.
In this session, Marc Karasek will explore how developers and engineers can approach embedded hardware and software with testing in mind from the beginning.

He will discuss how teams can create appropriate hooks and interfaces that make device and code functionality easier for third parties, including QA teams, to observe and validate without compromising the underlying system design.

The session will also look at the collaboration required to build testable systems. Rather than treating testing as something handed to QA after development, Marc will examine how earlier input from QA and other engineering perspectives can influence design decisions and reduce avoidable testing difficulties later.

How This Meetup Solves Your Problem

When testing begins only after development is complete, teams may discover that the system provides too little visibility or too few ways to exercise important behaviours.

This session will help you explore:

• How to consider testability during both hardware and software design
• How testing hooks and interfaces can make system behaviour easier to observe and validate
• How to improve testability without compromising the intended design
• Why QA input earlier in the development process can help expose testing constraints sooner
• How developers, engineers, and QA can avoid a “throw it over the wall” approach
• Why asking for another perspective early can improve the way systems are designed and tested

Why Show Up on 01 September?

Testability is not only a QA concern. It is also an engineering design consideration.

This meetup is an opportunity to hear how Marc approaches testability in embedded systems, ask questions about hardware and software design choices, and compare approaches with other practitioners.

You will also meet QA professionals, developers, engineers, and other technology practitioners from the Atlanta community and discuss how teams can make systems easier to validate, troubleshoot, and maintain.

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