TestCon Europe 2019
2019-10-15..2019-10-17
Vilnius, Lithuania
[TestCon Europe 2019, TestCon Europe 2021, TestCon Europe 2022, TestCon Europe 2023, TestCon Europe 2024, TestCon Europe 2025]
as the organisers put it
TestCon Europe is the leading conference for everyone willing to learn testing trends, best practices and make their contribution to the smoother software development cycle and quality. The event provides an excellent platform to keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and exchange experiences.
who it's for
test engineers, automation engineers, QA leads, devops engineers, engineering managers, developers focused on quality, security testers, accessibility specialists
topics
record-and-refactor test automation; Robot Framework end-to-end testing; local-first mobile synchronization; WCAG 2.1 accessibility testing; chaos engineering for reliability; performance testing with WebDriver; Spring Cloud Contract contract testing; infrastructure testing with Terraform; security testing for applications and OSS; Detox mobile flakiness mitigation; microservices verification without chain tests
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Joy of Record and Playback in Test Automation | Louise Gibbs | 27m |
Recommendation: keep it if wanting actionable, practical fixes. The talk argues that record and refactor beats blind record/playback: use Ranorex to reuse… | ||
| Help! We Have a QA Problem! | Niels Malotaux | 40m |
A rescue method that cuts a 106 day testing backlog to 47 days by chunking work, quick estimates and a timeline on a whiteboard, using a 1.4 calibration factor… | ||
| Why Testing is fundamentally different in DevOps than Classic Projects | Peter Gfader | 32m |
Workshop runs exercises from Liberating Structures, collects posters listing concrete fixes like one‑click speak up, reserve time to measure, pair programming… | ||
| From Waterfall to Agile: 7 tips for Transforming Test Organization | Torstein Skarra | 36m |
A government system with ~19,000 internal users, millions external and one-third of national budget runs through ~300–400 systems and forces huge eight‑week… | ||
| How to Organize Ethical QA Rules in an Organization | Michal Buczko | 36m |
A clear claim: ethical QA needs organizational rules, not personal courage. Real evidence: the dieselgate case shows a V-model applied to a cheating device… | ||
| Hallway Testing - Cool Face of Usability Testing | Ewa Marchewka | 31m |
Hallway testing claims that quick sessions with non‑experts catch obvious but costly UX failures: a color‑coded booking UI on intercity PL breaks for… | ||
| Automated End-to-End Tests with Robot Framework | Kristina Sabotic | 37m |
End-to-end tests automate a full business flow across ERP web UI, supplier portal, database checks, a desktop warehouse app and forklift tablet, saving… | ||
| Candy Crush QA AI Saga | Alexander Andelkovic | 29m |
A playable AI bot takes screenshots, detects UI elements with image hashing and OpenCV, clicks coordinates through an automation framework, and logs a graph of… | ||
| Testing Offline First Mobile Applications | Joe Keeley | 36m |
Claim: make the UI read local storage first and let a background sync service update that store and push/pull changes automatically when the network returns… | ||
| Quality not Quantity – Getting Value out of Test Automation | Louise Gibbs | 26m |
Uses the Double Diamond to pick what to automate, chooses Ranorex for ease of onboarding, and focuses on tests that run overnight against scarce hardware… | ||
| My Journey to Accessibility Testing and What I Learned from It | Martin Tiitmaa | 38m |
Journey describes starting from no experience and adopting WCAG 2.1 as the standard then collapsing ~100 checklist items into four principles perceivable… | ||
| Break your App before Someone Else Does | Ana Baotić | 38m |
Lists concrete checks and tools: run static analyzers (PMD FindBugs Checkstyle and lint), scan DevKnox (84 warnings including tab jacking), push apks out with… | ||
| Reporting Bugs: Errors Made and Lessons Learned | Peter Sabev | 30m |
Covers 15 common problems with concrete fixes: require steps to reproduce, attach screenshots or video using Greenshot and TinyTake, add expected vs actual… | ||
| Chaos: Breaking your Systems to Make them Unbreakable | Jason Yee | 39m |
Chaos engineering runs planned experiments on staging then production, using game days last 90 minutes with 30 minutes planning, 50 minutes play and 10 minutes… | ||
| Reasoning Skills within Software Testing | Andrew Brown | 43m |
Claims that testers confuse logical (indicative) problems with social (deontic) ones and that evolution explains why: dominance theory, theory of mind and… | ||
| Testing Software Architecture | Vladik Khononov | 40m |
Argues for concrete architectural tests rather than vague principles and shows actual tooling and signals to watch for using NDepend to compute metrics like… | ||
| Can I Touch You There? Tools and Techniques for Security Testing | Milan Gabor | 38m |
Research finds about 15–20% of issues are trivial to detect with tools, common failures include cookies not flagged secure, client-side password checks… | ||
| How AI is Transforming Test Automation | Daniel Gold | 30m |
An AI-based test automation framework records UI actions, extracts dozens of element properties and matches targets with a dynamic location strategy, then… | ||
| You Can't Be Agile If Your Testing Practices Suck | Peter Gfader | 36m |
Claim: Agile fails when testing and engineering practices don’t prevent rot. Evidence: a delivered international web app for a Swiss bank, a corporate goal to… | ||
| Building a Test Strategy that Scales | Thomas Noë | 22m |
Claims a scalable test strategy by shifting testing into pull requests and grooming, shows five recurring problems and concrete fixes: stop maintaining huge… | ||
| Improving Software Quality with Retrospectives | Ben Linders | 30m |
Four concrete retrospective exercises are explained with outcomes and how to run them: root cause analysis (dig multiple causes not just 5 whys, quantify lost… | ||
| From 0 to 100 000 Test Cases per Day, a Story about Scaling Test-Automation | Jani Haapala | 37m |
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| Strategic TDD | Francesco Strazzullo | 35m |
Argues that TDD is a goal–outcome–feedback loop and not just writing tests first, showing concrete uses: use input mapping to pick the next feature, measure… | ||
| Quality Transformation | Peter Caron | 34m |
Company scale hits 260 million boxes across 12 countries and a technical team of 350 engineers, so quality becomes measurable business risk not an abstract… | ||
| How to Practice Test Driven Development without Shooting Yourself in the Foot | Dennis Doomen | 33m |
Argues that TDD breaks when tests hit real databases and slow infra and shows concrete fixes: replace heavyweight DB calls with an in‑memory datastore to keep… | ||
| Evolution of QA to GA: The Sensu Go Crucible | Nikki Attea | 41m |
Startup moves QA from manual Word docs to an automated pipeline that triples test coverage (147 → 454 cases) and cuts execution time ~66% (4–6h → ~2h). Team… | ||
| Automated Performance Testing With WebDriver | Christian Bromann | 37m |
Shows concrete results and tools: WebDriver plus a Chrome devtools service captures trace events, Lighthouse and trace screenshots, and an assertion API that… | ||
| Better Continuous Testing in DevOps | Rod Cope | 32m |
Claims continuous testing requires about ~90% coverage and targets 90–95% of tests automated, with stable, fast tests that either pass or fail. It shows… | ||
| Sales Skills for QA Experts | Iancho Dimitrov | 44m |
Promises seven concrete sales skills for QA professionals and shows how they work: modular test automation with reusable components, two‑option tooling… | ||
| The Personal and Organizational Mindset of Innovation | Michal Buczko | 36m |
Research claims only 2–3% of companies and employees truly welcome innovation; concrete examples support it: Zara’s ultra‑fast supply chain and deliberate… | ||
| The Challenges of Testing Video Playback at Scale | Ian Goddard | 33m |
Claims that matter: glass‑to‑glass delivery for sports streaming, live‑to‑VOD pipelines and CDN edge behavior, and measurable failure modes. Concrete… | ||
| Performance Testing Done Right | Jiří Holuša | 40m |
Argues that latency and throughput are distinct: latency tests fix throughput, throughput tests push limits; shows a round‑robin scheduler that lowers tail… | ||
| Dealing with Data Driven Test Combinatorial Complexity using Jenkins Job DSL | Oleksandr Kravchenko | 36m |
Uses Jenkins Job DSL to replace dozens of hand-copied Jenkins jobs with generated, per-configuration jobs: a seed job produces template-backed child jobs so… | ||
| Functional and Visual Testing for Web Applications | Dmitriy Kovalenko | 42m |
Demo shows Cypress as a test runner that runs tests inside the browser (Node + Electron), executes JavaScript specs, and keeps tests reliable by retries… | ||
| Practical Contract Testing with Spring Cloud Contract | Oleksandr Romanov | 33m |
Claim: contract tests give unit-test speed with real integration validation by generating stubs and verifier tests. Implementation details: contracts written… | ||
| Finding Security Issues in Open Source | Alexander Todorov | 38m |
Shows concrete bugs found in an open source web app (exposed credentials in DB, copy‑paste permission gaps, template typos) and the fixes applied: form… | ||
| InfraCoding with Terraform: Writing Tests for Infrastructure-as-Code | Peter Souter | 37m |
Claim: infrastructure-as-code without tests equals self-sabotage. Concrete tools and outcomes: quick unit tests run locally with terraform validate/TFLint… | ||
| Deploying Security Testing Practice in Your Team and Company | Artem Vasiuk | 37m |
Argues for actionable steps: prioritize OWASP Top Ten with injection remains number one, use concrete tools like SQLMap steals DB schemas and Burp Suite or… | ||
| Design Decisions for Perfect JavaScript Testing Framework | Michael Bodnarchuk | 41m |
Recommends WebdriverIO as the practical Selenium implementation with good docs and page‑object support, labels Protractor and Nightwatch as legacy/problematic… | ||
| Extreme Contracts: the Freedom to Write the Tests you Need | Jacopo Romei | 32m |
Argues that tests and refactoring win when time is sold as value not hours and shows a concrete contract: a fixed weekly fee with software delivered every five… | ||
| Verifying Microservices in Chains without Chain Testing? | Pascal Dufour | 39m |
A bank with 100+ teams maps a messy API landscape, adopts consumer-driven contracts stored in producer repositories, and replaces brittle end-to-end acceptance… | ||
| Performance Testing in Agile and DevOps | Gopal Brugalette | 33m |
Claims concrete changes: add a JIRA checkbox for performance impact, run fast CI/CD baseline checks using 50th-percentile metrics, and keep a handful of large… | ||
| Test Coaching | Pekka Marjamaki, Jani Gronman | 24m |
Company coaching claims measurable shifts: a four‑layer strategy‑design‑techniques‑execution pyramid taught through hands‑on workshops, one‑on‑one followups… | ||
| Painless JavaScript testing with CodeceptJS | Michael Bodnarchuk | 33m |
CodeceptJS claims to replace low‑level browser scripts with a unified API that runs on WebDriver Protractor Cypress Puppeteer and more, turning verbatim clicks… | ||
| Detox: Tackling the Flakiness of Mobile Automation | Viktorija Sujetaitė | 31m |
Wix replaces Appium after two years and eight months with Detox, a cross-platform iOS and Android grey‑box automation library that runs hundreds of tests… | ||
| Agile QA in a Corporate Environment. NorthStar Use Case | Algirdas Petrauskas | 30m |
Danske Bank’s North Star is a car‑financing product supporting 40+ systems and 50+ people with a multi‑million budget; goals are customer‑facing digital… | ||
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