Gleb Bahmutov
Gleb Bahmutov is a JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the web a better place as Sr Director of Engineering at Mercari US. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/. Microsoft MVP for Open Source Software, GitHub Hero, Algolia Ambassador, CircleCI Ambassador
Proposals - Montreal 2027
How To Publish To NPM In 2027
NPM is the largest registry of public JavaScript source code, but lately it has been an attack vector for malicious code. To prevent the distribution of hacked code, the publishing process has been hardened against stolen credentials. In this presentation, I will explain the new trusted publishing process and how to follow safe code practices.
Does This Look Ok To You, Computer?
There are functional end-to-end tests: a script that drives the browser and uses the app as a real user. But what about visual appearance? Image diffing handles that by locking the web app to a consistent appearance. But what about unexpected issues that might crop up, like an overflowing label? There is now a new technique: asking an AI system to analyze an app screenshot to see if there are potential issues.
Codeless AI Testing Makes Me Code A Lot
Modern AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor promise easy test automation; just prompt the assistant to write a test, and watch it work. I found the day-to-day experience much different. In this talk, I will show which tasks AI is suitable for, how to collect relevant context for each prompt, and how to guide the AI to code better end-to-end tests.
