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Gherkin returns : A tale of Agentic Test Driven Development

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Session Description

Test Automation has long been a game of scripts, specs, and sweat. But what if your tests could think?In this session, we dive into Hercules, the world’s first open-source testing agent that autonomously executes Gherkin scenarios. Built with the philosophy of Agentic Test Driven Development (ATDD), Hercules reads natural language specs and orchestrates browser/API interactions, no brittle locators, no framework specific drama.

The talk will walk through:

The “Why now?” of agentic automation
How Hercules blends open-source LLMs and a test harness to decode, run, and report Gherkin test cases
Challenges faced while building the world's first open source testing agent.
A live walkthrough showing Hercules in action on a Test-driven development flow.

Key Takeaways

Learn how Hercules turns plain English test cases (written in Gherkin) into real browser actions, without any code.
See how you can test web apps using AI agents that read and run your test steps automatically.
Understand what’s happening behind the scenes; how the multi-agentic system breaks down test steps, controls the browser, and uses tools like visual validation

References

https://github.com/test-zeus-ai/testzeus-hercules/

Session Categories

Tutorial about using a FOSS project

Technology architecture

Story of a FOSS project - from inception to growth

Which track are you applying for?

Compilers, Programming Languages and Systems Devroom

Speakers

Robin Gupta CEO | TestZeus

Robin is the human at the helm for TestZeus, the company behind world's first open source testing agent. He is a versatile engineering leader with more than 15 years of experience in software delivery across startups, scale-ups and enterprises. He is a System 1 thinker, and has led products contributing to $10M ARR. With a metrics-driven approach, he has elevated engineering maturity of product teams for diverse domains such as BFSI, EdTech, Retail, and Developer Experience. Beyond work, he mentors at ADPList and Plato, contributes to open-source projects like Selenium and has authored books and international courses on software testing. He is also a recognized speaker at international events such as Dreamforce (by Salesforce) and Selenium Conference.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/polymorphicrobin/

Shriyansh Agnihotri CTO | TestZeus

All Aside, I am building TestZeus. Enabling engineers to leave trivial things on agents and become 100x engineers.

Software Industry Professional with 13+ years of growing experience in
Distributed Software Development, Scalable Application Architecture Design, Big Data pipeline, Orchestration Engine design and development, Disaster Recovery Orchestration Development, and Team management.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shriyanshagnihotri/