HUSTEF 2025
2025-10-14..2025-10-16
Budapest, Hungary
HUSTEF ·
[HUSTEF 2014, HUSTEF 2015, HUSTEF 2018, HUSTEF 2019, HUSTEF 2022, HUSTEF 2023, HUSTEF 2024, HUSTEF 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| HIGHLIGHT | 05m | |
HUSTEF celebrates its 15th birthday with about 750 attendees and a festivallike venue inside a train station and claims measurable changes this year: a new… | ||
| Human Experience Testing – Redefining Quality Engineering in the Age of AI | Tariq King | 47m |
Claims that AI will take over testing and that agents are the future come with concrete evidence: a patented autonomous-testing system, an open-source… | ||
| AI in Software Testing | Tonislava Docheva | 08m |
Demo of Xray’s concrete features and numbers rather than theory: a Jira-native test management tool that triggers automated tests, supports BDD and… | ||
| Building Trust in AI Agents | Henri Terho, Szilard Szell | 29m |
Claims a pathway to making agentic development actually reliable with concrete practices: choose and compare LLMs, add RAG and a vector database for company… | ||
| Beyond Code: The Power of Thought Leadership in Engineering | Laveena Ramchandani | 25m |
Argues engineers should push ideas beyond code by proposing concrete changes such as adopting DORA metrics, implementing an automation suite tweak from… | ||
| Testing and Assuring AI-Based Systems | Bryan Jones | 29m |
The talk gives concrete testing steps and an assurance framework rather than hype: a 2i-built Assure AI checklist that scores systems by accuracy robustness… | ||
| BEST PRESENTATION AWARD WINNER | Prashant Hegde | 25m |
Argues testers must add measurable business value by doing UX work: cites three reasons, recommends using heuristic evaluation against Jakob Nielsen’s 10… | ||
| Scaling testing & test automation without losing control | Sowmya Sridharamurthy | 40m |
A team-wide overhaul replaces scattered frameworks with a single governance model, a common folder structure and a data-driven prioritization that cuts noisy… | ||
| Value, Money, and Costs: The Ultimate Common Language for the Testing Strategy | Vitaly Sharovatov | 30m |
Central claim: frame testing as an investment that reduces probability and impact of failures and present costs in money. Builds a half‑day workshop mapping… | ||
| Critical Thinking for Testers in the age of AI | Steve Watson | 29m |
Claims that studies show cognitive decline with increased AI reliance and that Microsoft and Melbourne University papers back it up, a concrete risk quantified… | ||
| A Comedy of Errors | Linda van de Vooren | 24m |
Claims that after trying Java then Python for years the automated suites are brittle tests that need fiddling every run, concedes five years of struggle before… | ||
| Talk about value, not testing – how to bring about rapid change | Rob Lambert | 46m |
Claims a move from long, 14‑month releases to weekly releases and eventually a startup exit (~£350–360M) by reframing testing as demonstrable value; engineers… | ||
| Tester’s Inferno: 5 Circles of Software Hell | Adorjén Korényi | 10m |
A short Nokia Platinum Partner speech lists five concrete tester sins: blind belief, black‑and‑white thinking, loss of curiosity, passing issues like a… | ||
| Your Metrics Are Lying: How to Stop Reporting and Start Learning | Katja Obring | 29m |
Familiar metrics like test coverage, bug counts and cycle time often signal activity not impact; the QED framework insists on a clear question before metric… | ||
| Taming your Dragon: Addressing your technical debt beast | Andrew Brown | 30m |
Claim: technical debt is a human trade‑off problem driven by biases, emotion and role incentives rather than a pure engineering flaw. Cites a dice gamble where… | ||
| 30 years in testing – Battles won and battles lost | Gitte Ottosen | 44m |
Starts testing in 1995 on Nexus/CCIS where hardware-first procurement leaves a system with 256 kilobytes shared and monochrome screens, then helps throw it… | ||
| Behind the Scenes: A Software Tester’s Journey in Understanding the Business | Marta Firlej | 29m |
Shows actual numbers and mechanics: half of client fee goes to people with onboarding, tools and overhead eating most margin; sales and legal take 8–9 month… | ||
| Using AI to Create Better Requirements and Designs | Paul Gerrard | 30m |
Claim: AI can improve requirements and designs enough to speed trustworthy code generation. Uses Claude as the LLM, a seven‑layer engagement model (gopher →… | ||
| AI is not a god that we can trust | Ard Kramer | 26m |
Claims that an off‑the‑shelf ML face‑match service bought off the shelf fails on Dutch driver’s licenses, misses obvious fraud, and forces manual fallback… | ||
| Using AI, statistics, and set theory to know what to test | Simon Mavi Stewart | 45m |
Claims target determination from the build graph plus heuristics and ML cut test runs dramatically: tools named include Bazel, NX, TurboRepo, Gradle, Maven… | ||
| How to train your AI? | József Kreisz | 30m |
Shows concrete, repeatable work: Cicero that writes Oracle SQL, Volcanus that generates CSV/Oracle test data, and a Hermes that drafts test cases. Describes… | ||
| Unlocking Inclusion, How to Get Started With A11y Testing | Camilla Ellyton | 29m |
A simple four-rule checklist claims to reveal 80–90% of accessibility issues and the team validates it by doing a manual gap analysis that produces a long bug… | ||
| Permanent marker and other lies that holds you back! | Gregorz Niczyporuk | 10m |
Claims that "permanent" truths last forever get tested head on: checked 17 marker brands and every one fades with time, a surprising empirical counterexample… | ||
| When UFO Lands! Analyzing User Feedback During a Massive Customer Migration | M. Vanek, M. Veljacik | 30m |
A lightweight, LLM‑driven pipeline ingests in‑product feedback and uninstall surveys into BigQuery, labels and translates comments with the Gemini API, and… | ||
| Leading QA Initiatives for Strategic Business Impact | Andreea Cosariu | 27m |
QA initiatives use OKRs to turn scattered improvements into measurable objectives with three to five key results; a one‑pager status template lists objective… | ||
| Creative Test Reporting Integrating Pixar Storytelling Ideas into SW Quality Assurance | Udita Sharma | 28m |
Claims that applying 22 Pixar rules to test reporting makes reports actionable not decorative, shows templates with a one-line management summary and a… | ||
| From Resistance to Results: Navigating a Test Automation Tool Shift | Hugh McCamphill | 28m |
Claims a concrete migration: replaces cucumber + Selenium with web driver IO to cut flakiness, gain automatic waiting, built‑in retries and Puppeteer… | ||
| Get a grip on your quality by using Quality Views | Sonja Nesic | 28m |
Adopts Colin Breck’s Quality Views to create a functional system map, scores each component against 10 dimensions using whole-team scoring of zeros and ones… | ||
| Putting the Q in DevEx | Martijn Goossens | 30m |
QA maps concrete actions to DORA metrics and shows how test work changes those numbers: deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate, mean… | ||
| Contracts for Hire | Craig Risi | 32m |
Demo shows breaking a contract live then fixing it, proving a contract change fails builds without running dependent services. Contracts run at unit-test speed… | ||
| AI in Testing: Magic Wand or Pandora’s Box? | Brijesh Deb | 26m |
A concrete case: an AI test tool costs $250,000 mistake and flags 503 flagged, 25 real issues because of data bias, overfitting and opacity; UI hex tweaks… | ||
| Quality as an attitude – From Testing to Quality Engineering to…what? | Richard Seidl | 28m |
Claims that quality shifts from checkpoints to quality as a shared team responsibility, asserts AI becomes a colleague not a replacement and cites hugging face… | ||
| API testing journey through web protocols | Dawid Pacia | 31m |
Five API styles share ~25% usage each so REST is not enough; the talk compares REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets and Webhooks with concrete testing implications… | ||
| Stop Sabotaging Yourself: Break Mental Blocks to Actually Use What You Learn | Péter Illés | 27m |
Claim: hidden internal blocks—not lack of time or tools—stop conference learning becoming action. Uses a Slido realtime questionnaire and cites Harvard… | ||
| From generic to specific test automation architecture with Playwright | Attila Bulenda | 28m |
Shows a concrete recipe: map the gTAA layers to Playwright’s code generator for bootstrapping, a refactored Test Definition as reusable helpers and locators… | ||
| Enhancing Performance Test Results with ML & LLMs: Communication Beyond the Numbers | Ernest Marza C. | 29m |
An automated pipeline turns raw K6 load tests into stakeholder-ready PDFs by cleaning anomalies with isolation forest, explaining feature importance and… | ||
| Beyond A/B: Test automation approaches for web variants from A to Z | Giuseppe Donati | 28m |
trivago runs roughly 100 concurrent AB variants and shows that exhaustive end‑to‑end coverage is impossible; engineering builds a release controller, schedules… | ||
| Framework for Thriving Remote Leadership | Michal Buczko | 28m |
Claim: a practical framework of three values — Trust, Growth, Advocate — implemented with concrete practices: weekly one-to-one slots owned by team members… | ||
| New Adventure Begins – Discovering New Perspectives | Zsolt Hargitai | 05m |
IT spending is projected at $5.6 trillion and nominal growth is ~9.8% with about 5% real growth, while budgets reallocate toward AI infrastructure, software as… | ||
| Zen of Testing | Mesut Durukal | 31m |
Connects specific QA practices to Japanese analogies and names concrete actions: build CI/CD and test automation frameworks with reusable fixtures, log and… | ||
| Lizard Optimization | Gojko Adzic | 46m |
Claims a concrete case: mixing exploratory testing, cheap observability and controlled experiments unlocks 500 times growth in a year by following unexpected… | ||
| Evolving performance assurance | Leandro Melendez | 31m |
Argues that modern performance shifts from obsessed load testing to continuous performance driven by observability and CI/CD with small, frequent checks… | ||
| The Feedback Loop from Hell | Davy Kenis | 30m |
Slides expose concrete QA anti‑patterns and remedies: TCSD (test coverage stress disorder), false AI trust syndrome, and the “throw everything to QA”… | ||
| How to train your robot? | Irja Straus | 30m |
Experiences from a robotics startup show concrete choices: using Gazebo for simulation to validate customer warehouses, training perception models, and trading… | ||
| Eureka! I Won’t Be an Automation Tester | Magdalena Listwan | 27m |
Personal career story about trying an automation course, CliftonStrengths and personality.co tests revealing a preference for asking questions and connecting… | ||
| Securing LLMs: Insights into OWASP top 10 | Maryia Tuleika | 28m |
Claims include concrete exploits and tests: prompt injection works on chatbots (example: a customer bot revealing a previous user name), a PyTorch library… | ||
| Testing Cloud Applications Without Breaking the Bank: Testcontainers & LocalStack | Fernando Teixeira | 30m |
Claims a concrete setup: Testcontainers + LocalStack spin up AWS emulations, create SQS queues and S3 buckets, run Playwright-driven UI flows, then clean up… | ||
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