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How can Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) help Quality Engineering teams ship faster and test smarter? In this TTTribeCast session, Janani Balasubramanian explores the practical applications of RAG in Quality Engineering and how teams can use organizational knowledge, testing data, and engineering context to improve the way they design, prioritize, and execute testing.

AI agents can write tests, but those tests can repeat the same assumptions that led to the code. In this walkthrough, I use Cursor and proxymock to replay real application traffic against a local Go app, compare requests and responses, and validate code changes with real data.

Most QA teams are still switching between requirement docs, their local codebase, and CI/CD dashboards to get automation done. This session is about closing that gap -using AI not as a code generator you prompt occasionally, but as something closer to an actual QA teammate working inside your IDE. ​Key Takeways:​A working understanding of MCP architecture - how to configure and run local or cloud-based MCP servers to connect your IDE with enterprise tools.

In this interactive AMA session, Brenn Hill, AI executive and author of The Delivery Gap, explores why many AI adoption initiatives fail to create lasting impact despite growing investment and enthusiasm. Drawing from his experience helping engineering organizations adopt AI at scale, Brenn unpacks the common pitfalls that hold teams back and shares practical strategies for engineering leaders to drive meaningful adoption. The session will cover how to align AI with business goals, measure success beyond hype, and build a culture that enables sustainable AI-driven transformation.

Most AI pilots never make it past the demo phase. AWS Machine Learning Lead Praveen Jayakumar has seen plenty of promising AI projects get stuck between a successful demo and production. Teams often define what success looks like without deciding what failure looks like, leaving underperforming projects alive long after they should have been shut down. As Praveen puts it, they become “zombie” AI projects.

This session takes a practical look inside LLM context windows and token consumption, exploring what happens when context enters a model - from tokenization, embeddings, attention, QKV, prefill, and decode to KV caching. It also examines how context windows are allocated and why simply increasing context length doesn’t always lead to better model performance.

This video shows how Astera ReportMiner extracts structured data from PDFs in two ways: a reusable template for consistent layouts, and an AI-driven pipeline for documents that vary. Working from a mix of PDFs, digital and scanned, that vary in layout and quality, you can build a custom extraction logic in ReportMiner: Whether a PDF arrives with a known layout or a new one, it runs through the same pipeline into the same output, with fewer manual exceptions and less setup.

Mocking for testing starts off easy, but once you scale to multiple teams and AI agents, handcrafted mocks become a serious form of technical liability. Instead of treating mocking as an individual software engineering task, shift your mindset to treat it as a platform engineering task focused on automation and continuously refreshed modern data. Watch to see how adopting technologies like traffic replay to simulate realistic backend sandboxes can transform your modern testing workflow!

Human biology is extraordinarily complex, and researchers often have only fragments of information to work with. Brian Martin compares it to looking at a skyscraper through a keyhole: you can see something clearly, but only a tiny piece of the whole. Recorded at EVOLVE26 Singapore, this episode of The AI Forecast brings Paul Muller together with Brian Martin, CTO of Applied AI at Cloudera and co-founder of Rare Hopes NFP, to explore what one of the world’s most data-intensive industries can teach us about AI and decision-making.

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