Welcome to Testμ Conference 2026: Three Days of the Agentic Shift 🚀

Hey folks 👋, the wait is finally over - Testμ Conference 2026 is live!

This year marks the fifth edition of the world’s largest virtual software testing conference. Over the next three days, from August 19-21, you’ll join 75K registrations, connect with 100+ speakers, and dive into 80 sessions on agentic engineering, AI-driven quality, and modern testing.

Don’t miss out! Register for Testμ Conf’26. 🗓️

Earlier editions asked how to test software faster. This one asks a harder question: what does quality mean when the thing you are testing makes its own decisions. The theme is join the agentic shift, and it runs through nearly every track.

You can see it in the session titles. Talks like Confidence ≠ Correctness: The Agentic Validation Loop and You Can’t assertEquals an Agent: A Tester’s Guide to Agentic Quality are not introductions to AI. They assume you already ship agents and want to know how to trust them.

Across the three days, the programme leans in three directions:

• Trust and evaluation - how to judge an agent, from evals and LLM response testing through to governance and who signs off.
• Building and shipping - agentic engineering, web and mobile validation, security, and performance.
• Leadership and scale - what a quality engineering organisation looks like when AI writes a large share of the code.

The keynotes span the whole stack, from the model layer up to the enterprise programme.

• Andrew Duncan, CEO, QualityAI
• Francesca Lazzeri, Principal Group Director, Microsoft
• Luis Hector Chavez, Chief Technology Officer, Replit
• Dona Sarkar, Chief Troublemaker, Microsoft Enterprise AI Advocacy
• Kishor Wikhe, Executive Vice President and Head, Sogeti India, Capgemini
• Thomas Dohmke, Co-Founder and CEO, Entire

And that’s just the beginning; there are many more incredible voices waiting to be heard. Check out the full list of Testμ Conf’26 speakers.

Day 1 opens with Kishor Wikhe’s keynote and runs 31 sessions circling one question: how do you know an agent did what it claimed.

• Building Deterministic Infrastructure for Non-Deterministic AI Agents - the infrastructure problem sitting underneath every agent test.
• Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating Agents Against What They are Actually Supposed to Do and Build Trustworthy AI Agents powered by Evals - two takes on making evaluation mean something.
• Can You Trust Your ChatBot: Techniques for Testing LLM Responses and Testing What Matters: Evaluating LLM Relevancy with DeepEval - hands-on response testing.
• AI Trust and Governance in QE: Who Actually Signs Off? and Architects of Trust: Redefining Quality Leadership in an Agentic World - the accountability question nobody has fully answered.
• Backwards Scoring: Ranking Test Suites by Which Real Incidents They Would Have Caught - a genuinely different way to value a suite.
• Flaky, Fragile, and Forgotten: The Fall of a Test Automation Project - the honest postmortem every team will recognise.

Day 1 speakers include Joe Colantonio, Rahul Shetty, Francesca Lazzeri, Srinivasan Sekar, Sai Krishna, Gil Zilberfeld, and Mesut Durukal, among many others.

Day 2 opens with Thomas Dohmke and shifts from judging agents to building with them, across another 31 sessions covering web, mobile, security, and performance.

• Is the developer lifecycle dead? - the opening provocation, from the co-founder of Entire.
• Advanced Web Testing with Playwright and AI and The Full Agentic QA Loop for Web Applications - author, evidence, assure, and maintain, end to end.
• AI in Mobile QA: What Actually Works Today?, Debug with Appium MCP, and Engineering RemoteXPC - the mobile track, including wireless iOS automation.
• Securing Agentic AI and The Trust Problem: Designing Quality Frameworks for AI-Generated Code - what changes when a person did not write the code.
• Eval-First QA Agents: Testing Streaming Platforms at Fox Networks and Money Moves at Machine Speed - agentic quality in production, at real scale and real risk.
• The New Skill Stack for SDETs in the Agentic Era - the career session, if you are wondering what to learn next.

Day 2 speakers include Thomas Dohmke, Andrew Knight, Andrew Duncan, Shantanu Wali, Navin Chandra, Siddhant Sinha, and Sai Krishna, alongside many more.

Day 3 closes the conference on August 21. Open the day tab on the agenda to see the full lineup and build a schedule around what you actually want to learn, rather than trying to catch everything.

Plan all three days with the full Testμ Conf’26 agenda. 📅

Testμ Conf’26 is more than just sessions. Six challenges run alongside the talks, so you can compete without missing anything.

• Certification Marathon - complete certifications between August 1-21 for a chance to win up to $500. The top five participants win, and your entry only counts if you are registered.
• Kane CLI Hackathon - build with Kane CLI, the agentic testing tool that runs from your terminal and CI.
• Social Media Bee Challenge - share your Testμ moments as the conference happens.
• Leaderboard Challenge - interact and engage across the three days to climb the standings.
• TestMu Conference Games - drop in between sessions for something lighter.
• State of AI in Testing 2026 Survey - tell us how AI is actually landing in your QA practice and win up to $50.

Most of these take minutes to enter. See the full rules, prize breakdown, and how to join on the participate and win page. 🏆

Eighty sessions is more than anyone can watch live, so a little planning goes a long way.

• Pick two or three sessions a day that map to a problem you have right now, and treat the rest as optional.
• Show up live for the ones where you want to ask something. The question you type into chat is the part a recording cannot give you later.
• Use the Ask Me Anything sessions for career and skills questions rather than saving them for a talk’s final two minutes.
• Bring one thing back to your team. A single practice adopted after the conference beats a page of notes nobody revisits.

Testμ has always been about community. Built by the community, for the community, it’s a space where professionals from across the globe gather to share, learn, and grow together. Whether it’s deep-dive workshops, panel discussions, or cultural conversations, everything here puts you at the very center.

Here’s to Testμ Conf’26 - let’s make it unforgettable! 🌟