The Mobile Testing Workshop for Teams Who Gave Up on Automation

Most mobile teams don’t test by hand because they want to. They test by hand because automation has never paid for itself: months to stand up a framework, engineers writing Kotlin or Swift instead of the QA specialists who actually know the product, and a suite that breaks on every new release, assuming your app even has the stable element identifiers most frameworks require. So teams automate a handful of flows, watch the backlog grow, and keep the rest on a spreadsheet and a pair of hands. Meanwhile, release velocity keeps climbing across two native codebases, and manual execution can’t keep pace.

What happens in this session

Karim Jouini, CEO and Co-founder of Thunders, builds a working mobile test suite live, on an app with no test IDs, no framework, and not a line of scripting. You’ll see manual testers author tests in natural language by playing through the app, then watch agents run, validate, and self-heal them across iOS and Android.

What you’ll walk away with

• Author mobile tests in natural language by playing through the app, no scripting required
• Automate apps that were never built to be tested, with no stable element identifiers
• Build reusable components that hold up across iOS and Android
• Hand the lifecycle to agents: execution, validation, self-healing, impact analysis
• Keep TestRail, Jira, and your CI pipeline, and connect Claude, Copilot, or Cursor over MCP

Learn more about Thunders here.

Speaker

Karim Jouini

Behind one of the largest African tech exits in history, Karim Jouini is a Tunisian-born entrepreneur who spent seven years at Microsoft before co-founding Expensya, an expense management platform acquired by Medius for over $100 million. Now, he’s back with Thunders, a no-code agentic AI testing platform that raised $9 million in seed funding just six months after launch.