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Your Code Got Faster. Your Testing Didn’t: The Biggest Testing Struggles of 2026 and How to Fix Them in 2027

Your Code Got Faster. Your Testing Didn’t: The Biggest Testing Struggles of 2026 and How to Fix Them in 2027

Discover the Biggest Testing Challenges of 2026 and How to Fix Them in 2027

 

December 08, 2026
12:00 PM EST
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About this webinar

AI coding agents went mainstream in 2026, and testing hasn’t kept up. Teams are shipping more code and more AI-generated tests than they can confidently verify, with the same headcount and the same flaky suites. We’ll share the biggest struggles testers faced this year, drawn from real conversations with QA and engineering teams, and what the teams pulling ahead are doing differently. Along the way, we’ll show a few new capabilities that point to where agentic testing is heading: application knowledge graphs, test impact analysis, and testing agents you can call from your coding assistant.

What you’ll learn:

  • Why testing remained the bottleneck even as development sped up, and how to rebalance your release cycle
  • How to decide when to trust AI-generated tests without slowing your team down
  • What breaks the flaky-test and maintenance cycle, and how to stop losing hours triaging the noise it creates
  • How to report coverage tied to business risk that leadership will believe

Learn more about Mabl here.

About the Speaker  

Chris Hutchens

Chris Hutchens is a product leader at mabl, where he leads work on the platform’s agents and how they fit into modern development workflows. He spends his time with QA and engineering teams learning how AI is changing the way they build and test software, and turning those lessons into product. Chris holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Darrel Farris

Darrel Farris is Head of Solutions Engineering at mabl, where he works daily with teams going through AI-driven shifts in how they build and test software. He’s a frequent conference speaker on software quality, cross-functional collaboration and team upskilling. He’s known for turning big ideas into practical plans that engineering, QA and business teams can all get behind.

Dario Kondratiuk

Darío Kondratiuk is a software engineer at mabl, where he builds the AI agents that write and repair tests. He’s the creator of Puppeteer Sharp, the .NET port of Puppeteer, and the author of UI Testing with Puppeteer. Darío has spent more than a decade working on browser automation and is a regular voice in the testing community.

 

 

 

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