Reducing Developer Toil: Autonomous AI for Enterprise Testing at Scale

Developer toil is real — days, even weeks, are spent conducting manual, repetitive, timegobbling tasks like unit testing, which slows enterprises down. And while GenAI coding assistants can support developers, they repeatedly fall short in performing complex unit testing tasks without human oversight.

The problem is compounded by the shortage of experienced testers, leaving developers drowning in unit testing rather than writing and innovating application code. Reports show 75% of developers’ time is spent on tasks other than code generation, resulting in 57% of developers admitting to skipping unit tests entirely.

For companies to succeed, code must be fool proof. So how can enterprises ensure testing is comprehensive and done with due diligence — and at scale?

The answer lies in reinforcement learningbased autonomous AI, which can eliminate up to 95% of the time developers typically spend on test writing. In this session, you will learn how to

Improve business productivity and eliminate developer toil by automating manual and tedious test operations at scale (both locally and in CI);

How the right tools can autonomously write and maintain unit tests for entire Java code bases;

The latest best practices for implementing AIdriven unit testing in Java projects, strategies for overcoming common challenges in automated test generation, and the related quantifiable benefits observed in development team productivity and software reliability

This talk is designed for companies and dev leaders looking to push the boundaries of what’s possible in testing with emerging AI technology.

About Andy Piper

Vice President of Engineering at Diffblue, driving fundamental change in how developers write code

Andy serves as VP of Engineering at Diffblue, creators of the game-changing AI technology that fundamentally transforms the way developers write code. Previously, he was Head of Product Engineering at CBRE and CTO of Push Technology Limited.

Andy has more than 20 years of combined engineering and technology leadership, and extensive Java experience which includes time at BEA and Oracle. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge.

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