TestCon Europe 2022
2022-10-26..2022-10-27
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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 automation engineers, quality engineers, software testers, engineering managers, devops engineers, frontend developers, data scientists, test architects
topics
Selenium Cypress Playwright; bidirectional contract testing; digital twin testing; testing data science models; full stack test automation; audio and video testing; mobile project quick improvements; built in testing in Go; UI automation challenges; improving system testability; continuous delivery evolution; testing legacy code
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Testing a Data Science Model | Laveena Ramchandani | 42m |
Walks through a concrete testing process: verify datasets and shapes, run Delta run regression comparisons, expect model stochasticness and set thresholds 0–5%… | ||
| Autonomous Testing. Are We There Yet? | Marcel Veselka | 46m |
A prototype whoppy autonomous testing platform exists that wires together an assistant an autonomous bot and a brain, stores an app map in Neo4j, collects… | ||
| KEYNOTE: The Affordances of Quality | Steve Upton | 01h 01m |
Argues that quality depends on concrete affordances not slogans: a board with a separate QA column makes it trivially easy to “push quality later,” so remove… | ||
| Do You Know How Good You Are at Test Design? We Don’t Think So. Why? | Istvan Forgacs | 38m |
Claim: many testers cannot judge their own test design skill. Evidence: a custom mutation testing framework with 15 mutants yields an average 66% bug detection… | ||
| Testing With Production Data Is a Terrible Idea | Martin Hart | 46m |
Using live production records triggers regulatory exposure with penalties up to €20 million or 4% of global turnover and industry rules — PCI DSS forbids use… | ||
| Full-Stack Test Automation | Nikolaj Tolkaciov | 47m |
Argues that shifting checks into unit, integration and contract layers cuts flaky end‑to‑end load and maintenance: migrated one page from AngularJS to Angular… | ||
| Dirty Tests and How to Clean Them | Gil Zilberfeld | 46m |
Argues that test code deserves the same refactoring and review as production code and demonstrates it on a calculator API suite: converts duplicated setup into… | ||
| Tough Talk: How to Confront Your Opinion With Your Teammates? | Guillaume Duquesnay | 46m |
Argument rests on specifics: propose web driver vs Cypress with measured pros and cons, show results from a dockerized Firefox WebDriver prototype that takes… | ||
| Low Code Visual Testing of an Enterprise Scenario | Lucas Fievet | 45m |
Claims a low‑code tool (Logicflow / Astra) that uses computer vision and ML to remove selector and wait engineering by waiting for full‑page visual readiness… | ||
| BDD - It’s More Than Acceptance Tests | Almantas Karpavičius | 48m |
Argues that BDD is practice not just tests: uses SpecFlow and an eShop shopping-cart example to show examples before tests catch requirements bugs and keep… | ||
| Challenges in UI Automation and How to Solve Them | Johannes Dienst | 48m |
Claims that web UI testing is solved with selector-based methods but breaks on Shadow DOM, iframes, canvas and focus quirks; demos show Cypress running fast in… | ||
| The Future of Continuous Delivery | Paul Dragoonis | 52m |
Claim: a monolithic CI pipeline for a UK government project drops from 1.5 hours to 12 minutes by using heavy parallelism, one beefy build node to reuse images… | ||
| Audio and Video Testing Fundamentals | Deniss Locmelis, Adrians Minins | 48m |
Testing team runs 150 people across 50+ black box setups including a mobile bus and multidevice rigs, feeds video through an OBS virtual camera with ArUco… | ||
| Easier Adoption of Contract Testing With Bidirectional Contracts | Bas Dijkstra | 47m |
Demonstrates that bi‑directional contracts let consumer and provider each upload their own contract to Pact Flow and the broker compares them automatically… | ||
| From Tester to Engineering Manager - Leading People Who Know More Than You Do | Claire Reckless | 47m |
Moved from 15 years of testing into an engineering manager role at money supermarket, now supporting two teams (mobile apps and credit monitoring), hiring… | ||
| Shift Right Into the Metaverse With Digital Twin Testing | Jonathon Wright | 46m |
Claims a captured digital twin can auto-generate real test journeys from live telemetry and re-run them to hyperbaseline environments end to end, exposing… | ||
| How to Improve Your Mobile Project in 1 Day - A Guide for Everyone | Dawid Bastek | 41m |
Claims a one‑day lift by adding six concrete tools: a clear readmi 5, a pull‑request template, pinned dependency versions, static analysis (SwiftLint style)… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Quality Engineering - an Evolution of Software Quality as a Team Responsibility | Nikolai tokashov, Rick Marcellus | 46m |
Defines quality engineering as team-owned delivery, argues for built-in quality and joint responsibility, gives a 16‑week bootcamp and static analysis with… | ||
| Test Automation with Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright | Eran Kinsbruner | 46m |
Compares three toolchains with specifics not platitudes: Playwright (v1.27) ships built-in parallelization, a code‑gen + inspector and a trace viewer and… | ||
| KEYNOTE: If the Users Can’t Use It, It Doesn’t Work | Rolf Molich | 56m |
Shows concrete failures and concrete fixes: a password policy that rejects sane inputs, a U-Haul liability option that covers only $5,000 risking ruin, and… | ||
| KEYNOTE: Testing: The Next Generation | Mike Talks | 01h 02m |
Claims a concrete training system: a test team rebuilt from four seniors and four juniors, regular one-on-ones and pairing plus fortnightly learning sessions… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Breaking Myths About a Career in Testing | Andrei wanov | 46m |
Myth-busting with concrete claims and examples: accessibility checks are only about 10% automatable, WCAG contrast ratios and keyboard navigation are measured… | ||
| Become Black Ops QA with Selenium 4 BiDi-DevTools APIs | Anton Angelov | 47m |
Live demos show Selenium 4 using Chrome DevTools Protocol for geolocation, timezone and language emulation and the new WebDriver BiDi for cross‑browser use… | ||
| Personal Retrospective After 15 Years in the Software Testing Industry | Michal Buczko | 47m |
Fifteen years becomes a concrete map: worked in 20+ companies across telecom, automotive, startups and product vs software houses, several firings that teach… | ||
| The X-Factor | Ron Werner | 49m |
Asserts that the X‑Factor is not automation or AI alone but user obsession plus concrete signals: a PCI cycle (test‑check‑indicate) that mines observability… | ||
| The Road to Improving Testability | Darren Mothersele | 46m |
Claims that refactoring to clean architecture / ports and adapters reduces coupling and makes the business core fast to unit test, that a three‑way tradeoff… | ||
| Fantastic Biases & Where to Find Them in Software Development | Michael Kutz, João Proença | 47m |
Catalog of specific cognitive biases (false consensus, affinity, present bias, anchoring, groupthink, availability) with concrete countermeasures: use blind… | ||
| Is Test Management REALLY Dead? | Arnika Hryszko | 47m |
Argues that test management is not dead but evolving: pandemic data shows job postings tripled for test managers early in 2020, so coordination work grows when… | ||
| The Secrets of the Pyramids | Martin Gijsen | 46m |
Argues that the classic pyramid is about code machine person interfaces not fixed layers and that test strategy must follow business goals so automation… | ||
| Developing Web Application Testing Pipelines From Scratch | Aleksandra Psheborovskaia | 47m |
Built cadana Cloud as a classic web app with Dockerized services, reusing product data classes and running tests per commit as quality gates. Backend uses… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Future of Test Automation | 47m | |
Claims that tool dependency grows are backed by examples: a client runs 2 million executions a quarter and needs governance, a Chrome auto-update Chrome update… | ||
| How to Use Powerful Rituals for More Success | Sabine Wojcieszak | 46m |
Argues that intentionally designed rituals — not more meetings — produce measurable effects: a lockdown fist bump ritual celebrates each order/invoice and… | ||
| Testing Legacy Code - What To Do When It Seems Untestable | Christopher Miller | 45m |
Claims that nothing is truly untestable and that tests become a living contract with requirements, demonstrated by turning 0 tests into 20,000 tests across… | ||
| KEYNOTE: Quality Engineering Strategy to Grow From Testing to Built-in Quality | Rik Marselis | 01h 02m |
Shows a concrete quality engineering strategy template (Excel) and a live demo mapping user stories to risk classes and an intensity of measures so you can… | ||
| What Successful Test Automation is... and Why it's NOT Testing! | Lee Barnes | 47m |
Argues that test automation is a means, not testing itself, and that teams must measure actual value not vanity counts: only 26% value in top three. Cites a… | ||
| Collaborative Test Automation with Yest® and Jira® | Anne Kramer | 49m |
Claims a working pipeline that links Yest for Jira (a free Jira add‑on plus a desktop app) to test management and automation: visual workflows + decision… | ||
| Smoke Tests and Mirrors - The Magic in Test Automation | Benjamin Bischoff | 45m |
Claims nine magic-to-software principles—misdirection, force, repetition, clarity, framing, time lapse, conviction, failure, hidden complexity—and argues… | ||
| Why Is Test Automation Still Manual and How Can We Make It Really Automated? | Baris Sarialioglu | 46m |
Claim: most of the automation pipeline stays manual — decisions, tool selection, planning, test design, test data, bug analysis and maintenance consume human… | ||
| To Measure or Not to Measure? That Is the Question | Maryam Umar | 43m |
Compares concrete metrics and outcomes: defect rates by environment (Dev vs staging), look to book ratio, regression suite runtime and stability, and a… | ||
| I Don’t Need No Tests | Amir Shaked | 42m |
Claims building a no QA from day one engineering model that ships faster by forcing team ownership and automation and by pairing shift left tests with shift… | ||
| Built-In Testing in Go is More Than Just Passable | Scott McAllister | 42m |
Claim: Go's standard library testing is enough to get fast, reviewable tests rather than adding frameworks. Uses the built-in testing.T API with t.Run subtests… | ||
| Surviving UI Automation Armageddon with BELLATRIX | Nikolay Avramov | 47m |
Bellatrix proves to be a practical framework: C# plus Selenium-based controls, Jenkins and Azure DevOps pipelines, and a Bellatrix performance plugin enable… | ||
| Testing The Cloud | Radu Vunvulea | 48m |
Claims that half of corporate data lives in cloud and 90% of large enterprises use multi‑cloud set context and pain points, then demos show concrete tools and… | ||
| Evolution & Future of Software Testing | Mesut Durukal | 46m |
Shows concrete shifts: manual tests replaced by automation, waterfall replaced by Agile, seasonal releases replaced by CI/CD, and machine learning added to… | ||
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