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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.
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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AI Makes Testing & Architectural Boundaries More Important - 5th Dallas Meetup
Plano, Texas, Exact location will be announced soon, Plano, TX, USAI can generate code quickly, but speed does not remove the need for clear design decisions, reliable feedback loops, or tests that tell you whether the system still behaves as intended.
If anything, AI-assisted development can make those engineering disciplines more important. When implementation happens faster, teams need stronger ways to define expected behaviour, catch mistakes early, and keep the codebase maintainable as it changes.
Join The Test Tribe’s 5th Dallas Meetup for a session on how pragmatic TDD and Clean Architecture can support AI-assisted development without weakening quality, maintainability, or confidence.Event Details
- Date: 01 September 2026
- Time: 05:30 PM – 07:30 PM CT
- Venue: Plano, Texas (Exact venue to be announced soon)
What's on the Agenda?
AI Makes Disciplined Testing and Architectural Boundaries More Important, Not Less
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Speaker: Todd Empcke, Principal Engineer, Travel Curious
Generative AI can accelerate implementation, but engineers still need a reliable way to define expected behaviour and verify whether generated code meets it.
In this session, Todd Empcke will explore why Test-Driven Development (TDD) remains relevant in AI-assisted development.
Rather than treating TDD as a constraint on speed, the session will examine how the Red-Green-Refactor loop can provide a fast feedback cycle for both human-written and AI-generated code.
Todd will also cover how Clean Architecture can help teams structure tests around behaviour and architectural boundaries rather than implementation details.
The session will look at:- How to decide what should and should not be tested
- How to avoid duplicate, brittle, and expensive test suites
- Why test code should be treated with the same attention to readability, refactoring, and maintainability as production code
- How testing against real infrastructure can reduce dependence on brittle database mocks
- How transport-agnostic specification tests can verify behaviour across internal code, REST APIs, and gRPC endpoints
The focus is on building a test strategy that provides useful feedback as implementation changes, rather than tying tests too closely to internal details.
How This Meetup Solves Your Problem
AI-assisted development can increase the amount of code teams produce, but more code can also mean more complexity if testing and architecture do not keep pace.
This session will help you understand:- Why Red-Green-Refactor TDD can provide a useful feedback loop for human- and AI-generated code
- How to identify what to test and what not to test
- How to align tests with Clean Architecture boundaries
- Why maintainable test code matters as much as maintainable production code
- How transport-agnostic specification testing can work across different interfaces
- How teams can increase confidence in faster development without simply adding more tests
Why Show Up on 01 September?
This meetup is an opportunity to look at AI-assisted development from an engineering discipline perspective rather than a tooling perspective.
Todd’s session will focus on how TDD, architectural boundaries, and behaviour-focused testing can help teams maintain confidence as implementation speed increases.
You will also be able to ask questions, compare approaches with other practitioners, and connect with QA professionals, software engineers, developers, architects, and testing practitioners from the Dallas community.Become a Speaker at The Test Tribe Events
Wish to share your insights with the community at a future event?
Submit your talk idea here, and if it resonates with the perspective we are trying to build at our events, our team will connect with you.About The Test Tribe
The Test Tribe is the world's largest software testing community, empowering testers globally since 2018. With 925+ events and 170K+ members across 130+ countries, we bring software professionals together to learn, grow, and connect through meetups, conferences, cohorts, masterclasses, and more.
By RSVPing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and consent to be contacted by The Test Tribe and our event partners.2 attendees- Network event
Agentic Workflows and Performance Testing in the Age of AI | 5th NA Huddle
·OnlineOnline30 attendees from 14 groups5th North America Huddle - Agentic Workflows and Performance Testing in the Age of AI
Building with AI is moving beyond using copilots to generate code. Teams are beginning to use agentic workflows across requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery.
At the same time, AI-powered applications introduce performance challenges that are harder to predict with conventional test scripts alone. Variable latency, changing execution paths, and more dynamic system behaviour can make it difficult to understand where performance problems are coming from.
The Test Tribe’s North America Virtual Huddle brings together QA professionals, software engineers, architects, DevOps engineers, performance engineers, and AI practitioners for two sessions looking at these challenges from different parts of the software delivery lifecycle.
Event Details
- Date: September 3, 2026
- Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
- Platform: Zoom. Joining details will be shared closer to the event.
Agenda
All timings are in ET
- 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM: Welcome and introductions
- 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: Session 1 – Building with Agentic Workflows: From Idea to Launch by James Koch
- 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM: Solution Spotlight / Community Break
- 1:10 PM – 1:55 PM: Session 2 – The Day the Bot Broke the Backend: Performance Testing in the Age of AI by Gargi Majumder
- 1:55 PM – 2:00 PM: Closing
Session 1: Building with Agentic Workflows: From Idea to Launch
Speaker: James Koch
Quality Engineering Solutions ArchitectAI agents can support much more than code generation. The harder question is how to use them within a structured engineering workflow without losing the planning, review, and quality controls that teams still need.
In this session, James Koch will break down the workflow he used to build and launch a blog application end-to-end.
He will show how GitHub Copilot agents can support different stages of the process, including drafting requirements, generating implementation plans, validating architecture decisions, and accelerating delivery while retaining engineering quality gates.
The session will also cover the practical side of introducing AI into engineering workflows, including where human review remains important and how structured prompts, planning templates, and documentation workflows can help teams work more consistently.Session 2: The Day the Bot Broke the Backend: Performance Testing in the Age of AI
Speaker: Gargi Majumder
Performance Engineering & NFR SpecialistPerformance testing becomes more difficult when application behaviour is less predictable.
AI-driven systems may introduce variable latency, dynamic workflows, changing code paths, and additional dependencies that make it harder for traditional performance tests to explain what is happening inside the system.
Through the story of “Alex,” a performance engineer responding to an AI-driven production incident, Gargi Majumder will explore the Black Box Performance Gap and what it means for performance engineering teams.The session will examine how AI can also be used as a white-box collaborator, helping teams analyse code changes, generate test data, and surface system telemetry that may otherwise be difficult to investigate.
Rather than treating AI as a replacement for performance engineering, the session looks at how it can support deeper analysis and help teams design performance strategies for AI-powered applications.How This Huddle Solves Your Problem
The two sessions focus on different stages of the engineering lifecycle, but both address the same broader challenge: introducing AI without losing engineering discipline.
You will explore:
- How agentic workflows can support requirements, architecture, development, and testing
- Where human review and quality gates still matter when AI agents are involved
- How structured prompts and documentation can make AI-assisted workflows more repeatable
- Why AI-powered applications can create new performance-testing challenges
- How AI can support performance analysis through code inspection, test-data generation, and telemetry
Why Show Up on September 3?
This Huddle is an opportunity to hear two practitioners explain how they are approaching AI from different engineering perspectives.
You will be able to compare agentic development workflows with the challenges of testing and analysing AI-powered systems, ask questions during the sessions, and discuss where these approaches may or may not fit within your own team.
You will also connect with QA professionals, engineers, architects, DevOps practitioners, performance engineers, and AI practitioners from across North America who are working through similar questions.Become a Speaker at The Test Tribe Events
Wish to share your insights with the community at a future event?
Submit your talk idea here, and if it resonates with the perspective we are trying to build at our events, our team will connect with you.About The Test Tribe
The Test Tribe is the world's largest software testing community, empowering testers globally since 2018. With 925+ events and 170K+ members across 130+ countries, we bring software professionals together to learn, grow, and connect through meetups, conferences, cohorts, masterclasses, and more.
By RSVPing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and consent to be contacted by The Test Tribe and our event partners.
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