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The Test Tribe is the World’s Largest Software Testing Community turned EdTech Startup. Started in 2018 with a mission to give Testing Craft the glory it deserves while we co-create Smarter, prouder, and confident Testers.
This is a group for our super awesome Austin Community. We wish to create a safe and cooperating community for Testers in Austin too. We take pride in solving upskilling and growth for global Testing professionals through our unique offerings like Expert Courses, Membership, Cohorts, Offline Mixers, online Community spaces, and a lot of global Events.
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Our offerings enable Software Testers globally to collaborate, learn, and grow together. With around 400+ Software Testing Events like Conferences, Hackathons, Meetups, Webinars, etc., and with other Community initiatives, we have reached a global footprint of over 120K+ Testers from 130+ Countries. We intend to provide life-altering growth to every single Testing professional on the planet through community and technology.
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Testing Agents and Apps in AI-Native Simulated Environments
·OnlineOnline56 attendees from 22 groupsA Solution Spotlight Webinar by The Test Tribe, powered by WireMock
📅 Wednesday, 14 October 2026
🕚 11:00 AM ET | 10:00 AM CT | 9:00 AM MT | 8:00 AM PT | 4:00 PM London | 5:00 PM CEST
💻 Online, free to attend***
Why this session, and why now
Software is becoming less predictable, and harder to test.
AI coding agents are writing more code than ever, and much of it is never read closely by a human. At the same time, production environments keep getting more complex. Modern applications depend on dozens of internal services, third-party APIs, payment gateways, identity providers and data platforms. Integration-heavy architectures like these make it close to impossible to isolate a single component and test it properly.
For most teams, the result is familiar. Tests wait on shared environments that are slow, unstable or booked by another team. A dependency is down, rate-limited or hasn't been built yet. Simple mocks drift out of date and stop reflecting how the real system behaves. Meanwhile, the speed of AI-generated code means there's more to test, more often, with less time to do it.
This session looks at how to break that bottleneck.***
What the session covers
WireMock CTO and co-founder Tom Akehurst and Head of Solution Engineering Dan Perovich will start with the current state of test environments and how AI is changing software quality. They'll talk about what works, what's breaking, and why many existing testing strategies don't hold up once coding agents are part of the workflow.
Most of the session is hands-on. You'll see a step-by-step live demo of how to use modern, AI-enabled tools to build high-fidelity simulations of your production systems. These simulations behave like the real services your application depends on, so you can test rapidly and effectively much earlier in the development lifecycle without waiting on shared environments or unavailable dependencies.***
What you will learn
- The challenge of testing in high-dependency environments. Why systems that rely on many services, APIs and third parties are so hard to test in isolation, and what that costs teams in time and quality.
- Why coding agents destabilise many testing strategies. How AI-generated code changes the volume, pace and predictability of what needs testing, and which assumptions in today's test approaches no longer hold.
- The limits of shared environments and simple mocks. Where shared test environments and hand-written stubs fall short, and why they tend to become bottlenecks as systems grow.
- How to build simulated environments with AI agents and the WireMock MCP server. A practical walkthrough of using AI agents to create realistic simulations of the systems your application depends on.
- Best practices for consistent simulations that don't drift. How to keep your simulations accurate over time, so they keep matching the real systems they stand in for.
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Agenda (45 minutes)
- 10 minutes: Discussion on the state of test environments and the impact of AI on software quality
- 20 minutes: Hands-on live demo of building AI-native simulated environments
- 15 minutes: Open Q&A with the speakers
Bring your questions. The Q&A is your chance to ask about your own architecture, your dependencies and the testing problems your team is facing right now.
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Meet the speakers
Tom Akehurst, CTO and Co-founder, WireMock
Tom created the WireMock open-source library and has decades of experience building software used by QA teams at the world's largest companies. He also leads WireMock's work on agentic development.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomakehurst/
Dan Perovich, Head of Solution Engineering, WireMock
Dan works with WireMock's enterprise customers to design and deploy enterprise-class DevOps toolchains. His experience covers advanced cloud architecture, enterprise integration, automated and performance testing, and service virtualization solutions.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danperovich/***
Who should attend
This session is aimed at intermediate and advanced practitioners, especially:- QA Leads, Test Managers and Heads of Quality
- SDETs and Test Automation Engineers
- Backend and API Engineers
- Engineering Managers and Development Leads
- Platform, DevOps and SRE Engineers
- Test Architects and anyone responsible for test environments or test strategy
It's especially relevant if your team works with microservices, third-party integrations, or AI coding agents, or if your testing regularly gets blocked by environments or dependencies that aren't ready.
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FAQ
Is it free?
Yes, the session is completely free.
Where does it take place?
Online. Register at https://luma.com/testing_agents/ and you'll receive the joining details.
What if I can't attend live?
Register anyway, and you'll get the recording. Attending live lets you ask questions in the Q&A, though.
Do I need to know WireMock already?
No. The concepts apply whatever tools you use today. Familiarity with API testing or mocking will help you get more out of the demo.
Will I be able to ask questions?
Yes. A full 15 minutes is set aside for open Q&A at the end.***
About The Test Tribe
The Test Tribe is a global community of software testers. We run meetups, webinars, conferences and learning programs to help testers and quality engineers learn from each other and from industry leaders. Our city chapters bring the community together locally, and sessions like this one bring practitioners and toolmakers together to discuss the problems teams face every day.
Join us on 14 October, and feel free to share this with your QA and engineering teams.
👉 Register now: https://luma.com/testing_agents/1 attendee from this group - Network event
Webinar on Cost Optimisation for AI Agents by Chandan Varshney
·OnlineOnline34 attendees from 22 groupsWe're excited to announce the upcoming TTTribeCast Webinar on "Fewer Tokens, Similar Results: Cost Optimisation for AI Agents" by Chandan Varshney
When is it happening? 22nd October 2026 | Thursday | 9:00 PM IST | 8:30 AM PT | 11:30 AM ET | 5:30 PM CEST
What will Chandan speak about?
## Fewer Tokens, Similar Results: Cost Optimisation for AI Agents
Your chatbot answers in one call. Your AI agent might make 20 calls for the same job, and re-read everything it has seen before each one. That's why agent bills surprise so many teams.
You'll walk away with:
✅ Why agent costs grow faster than the number of steps
✅ The six hidden cost drivers most teams miss
✅ Five practical ways to cut spend: caching, model routing, context trimming, budgets, and right-sized multi-agent designs
✅ A real-world example: a test-failure triage agent made 25× leaner
✅ Why cost per successful task beats cost per call
About the speaker:
Chandan Varshney is a seasoned Test Automation Architect with 16 years of experience designing enterprise-grade automation frameworks for web and API testing using Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, and Karate. He brings deep expertise in AI and ML-driven testing strategies to drive innovation and efficiency in QA.About The Test Tribe:
The Test Tribe, established in 2018, is the world's largest software testing community and an EdTech startup. We empower testing professionals globally with expert courses, memberships, events, and community initiatives, fostering collaboration, learning, and growth. With over 950+ events and a global reach of 173K+ testers from 130+ countries, our mission is to provide life-altering growth to every testing professional.3 attendees from this group - Network event
7th NA Huddle – From 72 Hours to 3.5: A Quality-Driven Redesign
·OnlineOnline14 attendees from 14 groups7th North America Huddle – From 72 Hours to 3.5: A Quality-Driven Redesign of Retroactive Billing
What if the real reason a system is slow isn't the amount of work it does, but the way that work is designed?
This session explores how a retroactive billing process in a healthcare platform was redesigned to reduce processing time from approximately 72 hours to 3.5 hours. By separating calculations from invoice generation and treating testability as an architectural priority, the team improved performance while maintaining rigorous quality and financial validation.
The huddle also explores how AI can simplify mobile automation, turning plain-English test ideas into executable tests while keeping team standards and human judgment central to the process.
Event Details
- Date: 4 November 2026
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Venue: Online – Zoom WebinarSession 1 – From 72 Hours to 3.5: A Quality-Driven Redesign of Retroactive Billing
Speaker: Vinitha Kalappurakkal
The session examines how architectural decisions can make complex systems easier to test and dramatically faster to operate.
You’ll explore:
- Why an untestable system can be the root cause of slow validation.
- How decoupling retroactive calculations from invoice generation enabled independent verification.
- How a ten-gate quality framework aligns validation with architecture.
- How the redesign reduced processing time by approximately 95% without sacrificing validation rigor.
- How the same principles apply to other slow, tightly coupled processes.
Session 2 – Prompt to Passing Test: AI-CLI-Driven Mobile Automation
Speaker: Srikanth Srinivas
What if you could turn a plain-English test idea into a working mobile automation test without writing the test code yourself?
In this hands-on session, discover how an AI command-line assistant can work with WebdriverIO and Appium to generate an asserting test and execute it on a real Android device.You’ll learn how to:
- Turn plain-English test intent into executable mobile automation.
- Guide AI-generated tests using simple team conventions.
- Review AI-generated code with the same rigor as a pull request.
- Identify where human judgment remains essential.
- Observe mobile test runs at scale through a shared BrowserStack cloud device dashboard.
How This Huddle Solves Your Problem
- Testing complex systems takes too long? Learn how designing for testability can improve both validation and performance.
- Mobile automation feels too specialized? Explore how AI can translate test intent into working automation.
- Concerned about trusting AI-generated tests? See how team standards and human review can keep quality in focus.
- Struggling with tightly coupled systems or repetitive test creation? Discover practical approaches to making systems easier to validate and automation more accessible.
Why Show Up on 4 November?
- Discover how a 72-hour billing process was reduced to approximately 3.5 hours.
- Learn why testability should influence architecture, not just testing strategy.
- See how AI can move mobile automation from prompting to execution on a real device.
- Understand how human oversight and team standards remain essential in AI-assisted testing.
- Take away practical ideas for improving system performance, testability, and automation workflows.
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