TestCon Europe 2021
2021-09-07..2021-09-09
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[TestCon Europe 2019, TestCon Europe 2021, TestCon Europe 2022, TestCon Europe 2023, TestCon Europe 2024, TestCon Europe 2025]
who it's for
test engineers, test automation engineers, qa managers, devops engineers, backend developers, mobile developers, data scientists
topics
visual regression with neural networks; ui and accessibility frameworks in Java; graphql api testing; load testing tools and techniques; testing metrics for improvement; autonomous real-time testing; docker for staging environments; android test automation cookbook; mutation testing with PIT; observability for chaotic load testing; azure devops test automation; appium dockerization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Regression Testing with Neural Networks | Oliver Zeigermann | 45m |
Convolutional autoencoder reproduces 256×256 grayscale screenshots with an 8-neuron bottleneck and flags pages that the network cannot reconstruct well so… | ||
| UI, Api and Accessibility Frameworks Live Coding: Quick Set-Up and First Tests in Java | Szymon Ramczykowski | 45m |
Java + Maven + IntelliJ generate a runnable test project with one command and a five minutes claim is actually demonstrated: Karate handles API create read… | ||
| Basics of GraphQL and Testing GraphQL APIs | Pragati Sharma | 52m |
Claims that GraphQL returns “nothing more nothing less,” exposes a single super endpoint and usually replies 200 even on logical failures, and demonstrates… | ||
| Softs You Need to Run the Perfect Load Test | Christina Thalayasingam | 44m |
Performance matters: surveys show 11% fewer page views and a 16% drop in customer satisfaction from small delays, and Amazon links every 100 ms faster to ~1%… | ||
| Taking Quality to Next Level: Metrics for Improvement | Anton Angelov | 46m |
Quality improvement follows concrete practices: wait until testing matures to TMMi level 5 then collect data, run monthly reviews, and act on trends. Metrics… | ||
| Tools for ART - Autonomous Real-time Testing | Thomas Fehlmann | 45m |
Claims a practical pipeline that turns field logs into digital twins and runs them as test instances inside Kubernetes sidecar containers, using… | ||
| Docker and the Path to a Better Staging Environment | Gil Tayar | 44m |
Demonstrates building a real staging stack: a Node.js/React blog plus MongoDB, containerized with Docker Compose for single-host staging and deployed to a… | ||
| Industrialize your Android Tests: a Tools and Methods Cookbook | Thomas Carpentier, Ellinor Kwok | 39m |
Shows concrete tooling and a working CI pipeline: Appium Espresso Detox for frameworks, Genymotion Cloud virtual devices connected via adb, and Bitrise… | ||
| Mutation Testing with PIT | Rafal Leszko | 43m |
Links a 1999 Mars failure to weak tests and proposes mutation testing as the concrete fix: run PIT mutation testing, generate mutants (change + to − etc.), and… | ||
| How to Tame Bugs in Production: Successful Bug Managing Strategy in Five Steps | Elena Bazina | 46m |
Clear five-step recipe: accept bugs as normal, evaluate impact by actual user counts and business loss (Candy Crush Saga cites 255 million monthly active users… | ||
| How Testing is Evolving in DevOps | Szilard Szell | 47m |
Covers how testing moves left and right in DevOps with concrete tactics and tools: embeds QA into CI/CD pipeline design, runs keyword-driven automation with… | ||
| The Art of Teams | Ralph van Roosmalen | 40m |
Presents a specific claim: successful teams share six components — clarity, impact, trust, conflict, reliability and results — and gives concrete practices to… | ||
| Automated Testing Using Azure DevOps | Roman Nedzelsky | 46m |
Azure DevOps runs CI/CD pipelines that pull from Git/GitHub, spin up Docker or VM agents, run unit and UI tests (MSTest, Selenium, Postman/Newman), measure… | ||
| Schrödinger's Pokémon: Observability for Chaotic Load Testing | Nicole van der Hoeven | 45m |
Demonstrates a reproducible setup: a PokeAPI app on Kubernetes (DigitalOcean) with Prometheus + Grafana for metrics and k6 with xk6-chaos to run load and kill… | ||
| Orchestrating Your Testing Process - Coordinating Your Manual and Automated Testing Efforts | joel montvoliski | 46m |
Argues that the real outcome is an orchestrated testing process not separate silos and shows concrete numbers and behaviors: organizations run 5–7 automation… | ||
| Does Low-Code mean Low Testing? | Marjolein Pordon | 40m |
Argues that low-code still needs focused testing and gives concrete outcomes: a booking app goes from brainstorm to production in two days from brainstorm to… | ||
| The Art of (Backend) Component Testing | Yoni Goldberg | 47m |
Argues that the best balance is component tests that run the entire microservice plus infra (not full E2E or tiny units) and shows concrete tactics: use docker… | ||
| Panel Discussion | Test Automation Trends | Ellinor Kwok, Thomas Carpentier, Kerim Satirli, Yevheniia Hlovatska | 45m |
Claims: mobile testing moves to the cloud for device variety and cost savings, teams run thousands of devices in parallel; recommended tools include genimotion… | ||
| Panel Discussion | How to deal with bad requirements in testing? | joffrey just finis | 45m |
Claim: perfect requirements rarely exist; aim for good enough and conversations that turn vagueness into testable outcomes. Practical fixes: link tests to… | ||
| Continuous Performance Testing in DevOps | Lee Barnes | 41m |
Claim: traditional performance testing is dead for DevOps; instead build a continuum of performance data by adding small, frequent checks at commit (use… | ||
| The Pony Express and How Technology Moves Fast | PJ Hagerty | 57m |
The central claim is concrete: a coast-to-coast courier cuts delivery to 10 days but endures only 18 months before the telegraph obsoletes it, illustrating… | ||
| Stop Trying to Fix Everything | Steve Upton | 58m |
Argues that root causes are fuzzy in complex systems and that five whys and action-item rushes often stop learning. Recommends running a blameless postmortem… | ||
| How to Make Developers LOVE Writing e2e Tests | Yevheniia Hlovatska | 45m |
A team at wix.com moves end-to-end ownership from QA (Java + Selenium) to developers, switches test tooling and some QA to JavaScript, and reports concrete… | ||
| Excellent Testing Starts With Excellent End-User Requirement Engineering and Specification | sean mcguire | 44m |
Argues that running focused design-thinking workshops produces concrete requirements and test cases rather than fuzzy ideas, and that workshop outputs become a… | ||
| Automating Audio Tests? Sounds Good! | Roman Zakharov | 39m |
App automates audio verification by exposing Unity UI and evaluation JSON over grpc, letting tests assert per-note correctness and timing; live service returns… | ||
| Fundamentals & Practices for getting a High-Performance Team | Geoffrey van der Tas | 44m |
Claim: half the job is communication not coding and getting a high‑performance team requires concrete steps not platitudes. Teams start with a two‑day… | ||
| Is Survival of the Fittest Only for the Fastest? | Wim Demey | 47m |
Argues that manual testing survives because automation often fails in practice: unattended CI/CD batches stop for server updates or screensavers, large… | ||
| Is Testing Like Electricity? | Phil Royston | 01h 00m |
Title proposes testing ≈ electricity and the talk proves it with concrete parallels: historical wins like the IBM System/360 (20,000 installs then 100,000… | ||
| Proactive Programming | PJ Hagerty | 31m |
Proactive programming claims that investing up front in foundation, tests and monitoring prevents later firefights; it favors a tight feedback loop of unit… | ||
| How to Build a Test Automation Tool That Works in Agile | Istvan Forgacs | 46m |
Tool roadmap shows four levels from Selenium-based code to Gherkin++ codeless scripts to an implementation‑independent model. The actual method is Action State… | ||
| Improved Regression Testing in Agile | Gjore Zaharchev | 45m |
Claims a concrete method: divide regression into six-group heuristic (recent, core, risky, configuration‑sensitive, repaired, chronic) and run a short smoke… | ||
| Deming's Management Philosophy for Testers Teams | Steve Hoeg | 45m |
Shows the concrete claims and tools: the red bead experiment demonstrates individual effort barely moves defect rates, with 85% system attribution for output… | ||
| Ready to Run the Risk? - Applying a Risk-Based Approach to Testing | Adam Sandman | 53m |
Argues that a risk-adjusted test plan beats vague coverage by mapping identified risks (often 100 down to ~20 exposed) to concrete tests in a spreadsheet… | ||
| Acceptance Testing Sounds Easy, But Is Hard to Get Right | Peter Gfader | 01h 00m |
Talk argues that acceptance tests must be concrete: executable examples, not vague prose. Demonstrations include an auction scenario and an authorization… | ||
| Inside Software Architecture - Where the Bodies are Buried | Adam Sandman | 41m |
Claims that architecture guides risk-based testing and that refactoring often touches far more code than expected are supported with specifics: C#/JavaScript… | ||
| Full-stack Testing in is the New Normal | Christina Thalayasingam | 36m |
Claims that full‑stack testing catches issues across UI, API, backend and middleware earlier, yields faster feedback and fewer late bugs, and transitions into… | ||
| Testing a Data Science Model | Laveena Ramchandani | 26m |
Claims a practical workflow: models use genetic algorithms producing stochasticness, testing relies on a baseline run compared to new runs with an accepted… | ||
| Integration Testing from the Trenches - Rebooted | Nicolas Fränkel | 40m |
Argues for concrete practices: run fast unit-like tests on every commit and run slow integration suites at intervals, name tests so Maven Surefire handles fast… | ||
| Just Ship It! | Nikolaj Tolkaciov | 38m |
Claims that continuous deployment reduces sprint chaos by forcing safe partial releases and automation backed by monitoring and quality gates. Cites DORA… | ||
| Appium Dockerization: From Scratch to Advanced Implementation | Sargis Sargsyan | 44m |
Shows a working Appium-in-Docker pipeline: Appium server, adb and VirtualBox VM for USB passthrough, emulator-in-container, and a Selenium hub wired together… | ||
| Common Strategy to Test IoT for Different Industries | Vipin Jain | 50m |
Claims fast growth from a few billion to 50 billion devices and ~$560B market and specific tooling: packet inspectors like Wireshark and tcpdump plus cloud… | ||
| Extreme Shift Left / Out with the Requirement Engineer? | Wim Decoutere | 54m |
Argues testers can take on requirements engineering to reduce duplicate work and write more testable requirements, citing that over 50% of defects originate in… | ||
| Usability Testing with Zero Budget | Peter Sabev | 46m |
Claims a full usability program at zero cost by recruiting 20+ users (friends, colleagues, family), testing wireframes or products with simple timing and… | ||
| Test Automation Monsters | Phil Royston, Marcel Veselka | 01h 08m |
Conference claim: digitalization and DevOps force “automate everything” but reality is tool churn and fragility. Organizers name Selenium, Cypress, Playwright… | ||
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