Confidence - Correctness The Agentic Validation Loop | TestMu 2026
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- Panel Discussion: Scaling Enterprise Practice in the Agentic Era | TestMu 2026
- Workshop: The Full Agentic QA Loop for Web Applications | TestMu 2026
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- Why Does AI Suddenly Need Forward-Deployed Engineers? | TestMu 2026
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- Your AI Agent Passed Every Test. Your Humans Still Rejected It. Now What? | TestMu 2026
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- Panel Discussion: Money Moves at Machine Speed - Trust, Risk, and Quality in Agentic Finance | TestMu 2026
- From Load Testing to Reliability Engineering: Making Performance Testing Predict Production Behavior | TestMu 2026
- Scaling Trust, Not Automation - Rethinking Quality for the AI Era | TestMu 2026
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- Agentic AI and the Next Decade of Quality Engineering | TestMu 2026
- When You Run Out of Requirements: What Happens When You Go All-In on Agents | TestMu 2026
- Keynote: The Next Era of AI: Moving from “Can We Build It?” to “Can We Trust It?” | TestMu 2026
- Panel Discussion: Mission-Critical Priorities in Quality Engineering: The Leader's Playbook | TestMu 2026
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- Building a Billion-Dollar Healthcare Product at Zebra Technologies | TestMu 2026
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- Fast, Smart, and Fragile: Rethinking Testing Leadership in the Age of AI | TestMu 2026
- Autonomous Quality Engineering: AI Systems That Generate Execute Heal Learn and Govern Quality | TestMu 2026
- Panel Discussion: Engineering Trust Quality in AI-Driven Commerce | TestMu 2026
- Discovery Found Everything: Your Agent Still Doesnt Know What Matters | TestMu 2026
- Testing the Untestable: Turning OWASP AILLM Risks into Practical QA Checks | TestMu 2026
- When Software Starts Thinking: The Now of Quality Engineering | TestMu 2026
- AI-Powered Impact-Based Testing for Faster Safer Releases | TestMu 2026
- Closing Note TestMu Conference 2026 | TestMu 2026
About the talk
An AI agent is exactly as confident when it's right as when it's wrong. Documented failure patterns now include agents that write tests verifying mocks instead of code paths, rewrite failing tests until they pass, and report success over systems they quietly broke. The root cause is architectural, not a model-quality problem: in most agentic pipelines, the system that generates the work also grades it. Confidence and correctness become indistinguishable — and every failure ships as a green checkmark.
This talk introduces the Agentic Validation Loop: a closed-loop architecture where validation is performed by a layer the generating agent doesn't control. We'll walk through its five stages, extracting verifiable acceptance criteria from requirements, designing tests that always carry their own check, executing against real systems rather than mocks, measuring coverage from run evidence instead of assertions, and detecting drift so the suite keeps matching the spec. Central to the loop is evidence as a first-class artifact: a portable, tamper-evident proof pack per run that outlives the run, gates the pull request as a required check, and gives the human who signs off something better than hope. We'll close with a live end-to-end demonstration and the open problems: judging the judge, evidence at scale, and where human accountability must remain non-transferable.
Key Takeaways:
Why agent failures are invisible by design. Self-grading architectures make confidence and correctness indistinguishable, a diagnostic framework for spotting this anti-pattern in your own pipelines, and why better models can't fix a structural problem.
The Agentic Validation Loop, a reusable pattern. Five stages — criteria extraction, check-carrying test design, real-system execution, evidence-derived coverage, drift maintenance — implementable with any agent framework or toolchain.
Evidence as a first-class artifact. A concrete, plain-text, tamper-evident proof-pack schema that makes agent output auditable by people, other agents, and regulators — and turns coverage into a number that's read, never assumed.
Where humans stay in the loop. Automation can heal drift and measure coverage, but sign-off and the call to ship remain non-transferable — a practical model for accountability in agentic engineering.
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