XP 2026
Wed 8 - Sat 11 April 2026 São Paulo, Brazil
Wed 8 Apr 2026 16:20 - 16:40 at Room 513 - Writer's Workshop Chair(s): Kyle Brown, Douglas C. Schmidt, Joseph (Joe) Yoder

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This paper describes the Continuous Delivery for Artificial Intelligence (CD4AI) pattern, a strategy to balance deployment velocity and rigorous validation in AI-enabled systems. The pattern establishes a three-stage lifecycle for these systems: (1) testing: a Continuous Integra- tion / Delivery (CI/CD) step combining automated tests and probabilis- tic evaluations, allowing new versions into production if they succeed at a minimum rate (e.g., 95% success rate); (2) monitoring: a monitoring step that collects real-world interactions for later analysis, flagging po- tential anomalies via automated heuristics; and (3) curation: a feedback loop step to gather candidate interactions that can be converted into new tests, incrementing the regression suite. By leveraging production observability as a source of truth for test generation, this pattern enables teams to maintain high deployment velocity while automatically evolv- ing their test suites to match the complexity of real-world usage. This ensures both the testability and robustness of the system over time.

Wed 8 Apr

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15:40 - 17:40
Writer's WorkshopWS: Patterns for GenAI at Room 513
Chair(s): Kyle Brown IBM, USA, Douglas C. Schmidt William & Mary, Joseph (Joe) Yoder The Refactory, Inc.
  • Download and read the papers before the MiniPLoP
  • The core of MiniPLoP is to review and give feedback on the papers
  • Authors “fly on the wall” while the community discusses their work
  • Discussion on ways to improve clarity, form, and the “force” of the patterns
15:40
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Enterprise Tool and Agent Patterns
WS: Patterns for GenAI
Kyle Brown IBM, USA, Joseph (Joe) Yoder The Refactory, Inc.
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Toward A Pattern Language for Agentic Retrieval Pipelines: From Intent to Adaptive Knowledge Acquisition
WS: Patterns for GenAI
William Schreiber , Jules White Vanderbilt University, Douglas C. Schmidt William & Mary
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CD4AI: Regression Testing for AI-Enabled Systems
WS: Patterns for GenAI
João Paulo Pereira da Silva , Renato Cordeiro Ferreira IME-USP | JADS-TiU/TUe, Alfredo Goldman University of São Paulo
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A Pattern Hierarchy for Using Generative AI for Task Allocation in Agile Project Management
WS: Patterns for GenAI
Maan Patel , David Gershony University of California, Irvine, Dustin Lee University of California, Irvine, Joe Hoshina University of California, Irvine, Alberto Krone-Martins UC Irvine, Hadar Ziv
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Paper
Extract Prompt
WS: Patterns for GenAI
Graham Lee Chiron Codex
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senpAI: A Pattern for Contextual Onboarding and Knowledge Transfer
WS: Patterns for GenAI
Sócrates Veridiano Faria Lopes Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo
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