TestCon Europe 2023
2023-10-25..2023-10-27
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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, qa managers, software testers, qa engineers, engineering managers, test architects
topics
iOS test automation; core banking test automation; big data ETL testing; chaos testing for resilience; usability test evaluation; continuous integration practices; API exploratory testing; finding and fixing test flakiness; shift-left testing practices; test design debt assessment; qa audit and governance; ChatGPT in testing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Learning Culture: Adapt or Die | Phil Royston | 39m |
Company growth goes 10→20→40→80→130 people and then revenue drops because clients shift to agile and expect technical testers; testers lack automation and… | ||
| Playwright or Selenium? The Modern Approach to UI Test Automation | Angela Derewieńczuk | 20m |
Benchmarks compare Playwright and Selenium on a four‑case login suite and show real differences not marketing copy a single run completes in 12.54s vs 14.51s… | ||
| Why do we need this whole diversity in IT? | Ewa Marchewka | 23m |
Title claims multiple concrete findings: a small experiment finds the audience beats the expert crowd right 91% vs expert 65%, a behavioral study of about 700… | ||
| How to Lead Testing Teams and Foster a Learning Culture | 41m | |
A company runs quarterly learning goals tied to appraisals across 1,400 people with an L&D team; a product group uses demo culture and ownership in a team of… | ||
| From Zero to Hero, Avoiding Monkey Work! | Raffaele Colace | 34m |
Claims a reproducible pipeline that deploys from the first commit using an open source Talos template wired to GitLab pipelines, Terraform/volt provisioning… | ||
| Test Automation Transformation Avoiding the 7 Common Pitfalls | Paul Chorley | 54m |
Promises a concrete list: seven common pitfalls with specific fixes and tradeoffs. Covers lack of exec sponsorship and project governance, tool traps like… | ||
| When Testing in a Full Scale Digital Transformation Nothing is Common | Jeroen Rosink | 40m |
Claim: standard project testing breaks down during full‑scale digital transformation. Program splits into four streams — connectivity, application hosting… | ||
| The Path to Success Advancing Your Career as a Test Engineer | Nikolaj Tolkaciov | 39m |
The presentation introduces the L T T P model — six attributes (later expanded to seven) each with five levels — and offers a self-assessment matrix and spider… | ||
| Multilayered Core Banking Test Automation Using Open Source Scriptless Solutions | Ashish Ghosh | 42m |
Claims an open source, scriptless import-JSON framework cuts regression from 96 hours to 90 minutes (reported as 98% time saving), shrinks UAT from three… | ||
| The End of Testing as We Know It | Rik Marselis | 50m |
Argues testing moves from a late bug hunt to quality engineering strategy that builds quality from day one and supplies the information stakeholders need… | ||
| iOS Test Automation to Infinity and Beyond | Igor Dorovskikh, Anton Prokuda | 37m |
Claim: native XCUITest with Swift and page‑object wrappers reduces maintenance and runtime errors compared with Appium for heavily native iOS apps. Specifics… | ||
| Emergent Load Testing Rules for Organized Chaos | Nicole van der Hoeven | 43m |
Claims that emergent load testing finds what traditional scripts miss by giving tests agency and bidirectional feedback, demonstrated with working k6 examples… | ||
| Continuous Integration Tips & Tricks | Paul Dragoonis | 41m |
A set of concrete CI changes that actually speed feedback: a claimed reduction from 1h20 to 13 minutes by tuning infrastructure and pipeline shape; flip… | ||
| If Human Behavior is Badly Affecting Our Work, Can We Do Something About It? | Niels Malotaux | 54m |
Claims concrete results from coaching 25 years with ~400 teams: apply just-in-time training for three weeks and teams change intuition and cut delivery time by… | ||
| A Good Team is Not a Dream | Gjore Zaharchev | 33m |
Concrete claims and practices: teams scale to 150 QA people and hiring one person costs five to six interviews = 12–30 hours, so replace “we can survive… | ||
| Better | Faster | Stronger - Delivering High-Quality Products | Finn Lorbeer | 37m |
Ride‑pooling software for Hamburg proves specific changes: impose work‑in‑progress limits to cut cycle time from over two weeks to much faster, adopt feature… | ||
| Lessons Learned From Quality Management, How Do 3 Amigos Affect Each Other | Michal Buczko | 40m |
Company uses a hybrid V‑model + agile pipeline with an explicit quality framework split into quality assurance, quality management and quality engineering, and… | ||
| How a Tester Can Help Improve the Quality of Requirements | Karolina Zmitrowicz | 42m |
Argues that testers improve requirements by making them testable and measurable and adding concrete acceptance criteria, shows concrete templates (EARS and… | ||
| How to Test BigData/ETL Solutions? | Igor Khrol | 30m |
Claims that table-heavy ETL is best tested by Cucumber table tests with fast unit checks and SQL formatting via IntelliJ, that pipelines run as Airflow DAGs… | ||
| Feature Branching is Evil | Thierry de Pauw | 38m |
Claim is that feature branches slow teams by delaying feedback, increasing merge conflicts and WIP, and hiding refactor pain; evidence includes tools and… | ||
| Use Chaos Testing to Build Resilience in the Software | Vipin Jain | 37m |
Chaos engineering presents a five‑step, disciplined process: state a measurable steady state hypothesis, pick targeted real‑world variables, run automated… | ||
| Learning From Failure With Elon Musk | Steve Upton | 51m |
Compares a coherent engineering experiment — try parachutes, learn, pivot to parachute recovery failed and then to engine-powered landings succeeded using… | ||
| Improve Your Usability Tests: Learnings From Evaluating 100-plus Usability Tests | Rolf Molich | 40m |
Clear, evidence‑backed rules: evaluation of 150 videos/450 sessions finds moderators talk too much, ask leading questions, and write unusable reports; task… | ||
| Embracing Shift-Left Testing | Vojin Popovic | 40m |
Argues that shift-left is about concrete practices not buzzwords and can be fully manual as well as automated, claiming a finance client moves from three… | ||
| Aligning Teams and Defining Direction: The Transformative Impact of Lean Inception | Paulo Caroli | 32m |
Clear, practical recipe for running a Lean Inception: a multi-day agenda that mixes personal map introductions, team principles, definition of ready/done… | ||
| Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Becoming Better Leader | Vipin Jain | 39m |
Clear claim: emotional intelligence is necessary to lead teams in an AI era, not optional. Five concrete components are named — self-awareness… | ||
| Identifying and Testing Details That Matter Using Automated Tests | Almantas Karpavičius | 39m |
Concrete fixes and tools replace vague promises: refactor the Harry Potter bookstore pricing tests to use a shared book price constant and small helper… | ||
| Goodhart's law - pitfalls of measuring everything | Ewa Marchewka | 27m |
Explains Goodhart’s law as a practical hazard for TestCon attendees with four concrete failure modes: regressive correlation, extremal breakdown, adversarial… | ||
| Toward More Efficient Triage With AI & Data | Kohsuke Kawaguchi | 37m |
Claims that machine learning and data reduce test cost and delay by prioritizing and quarantining tests, with concrete examples and outcomes: Facebook and… | ||
| Test Automation in the Age of Al | 41m | |
Panel reports concrete results and limits: a low‑code approach implements self‑healing via multiple element interactions for flaky UIs, an AI-driven failure… | ||
| Path to Becoming and Developing an Effective Test Automation Engineer | Lee Barnes | 40m |
Argues that test automation succeeds or fails on concrete engineering choices not slogans: ROI should be #1 metric rather than counting scripts, automation… | ||
| Energize Your Software Team's Performance – Think Like an Improv Actor | Glenn Anderson | 31m |
Claim: applying improv practices measurably energizes collaboration by turning shut‑downs into constructive moves. Tools used include pantomime, the one‑word… | ||
| API Exploratory Testing | Gil Zilberfeld | 42m |
Demonstration uses Postman and Chrome DevTools to interrogate a Star Trek search API and reports concrete surprises: queries return five results for many… | ||
| Breaking the Mold | Anton Angelov | 36m |
A RESPECT framework appears that spells out Reliability, professional ethics, Sincerity, Professionalism, Empathy, data Protection and Transformation through… | ||
| Anatomy of a Testing and QA Audit of a Software Project | María Carrión | 34m |
Claims that a functionality‑based measurement lets teams estimate required testware and spot weak areas by the numbers and not buzzwords, shows an example… | ||
| Testing Web Pages and Mobile Applications With Locust.io | Jan Sabak | 35m |
Claims Locust wins over JMeter when tests need Python debugging, data generation and post‑run analysis; actual setup uses HAR-to-Python transformer plus… | ||
| Replace Human in the Center of the Software Quality | Marc Hage Chahine | 33m |
Argues for adding ISO 25010–style standards a new human quality criterion that specifies measurable subcriteria: ethics, impact, sustainability; cites… | ||
| Editing Your Novel: a Model of Testing | Mike Talks | 49m |
Claims a concrete parallel: editing a novel maps to testing software with measurable outcomes — a cited 5% error rate (studies 1–14%), first drafts of ~90,000… | ||
| What’s Your Test Design Debt? Avoid the Inevitable! | Wim Decoutere | 41m |
Defines test design debt as the implied cost of fixing quick and dirty tests and maps ISO 25010 maintainability (modularity, reusability, analyzability… | ||
| Real Cross-Platform Workflow UI Automation | Johannes Dienst | 36m |
Claims a working cross‑platform UI automation pipeline that uses a machine‑learning object-detection model on screenshots, sends inference to the cloud, and… | ||
| The Power of Human and AI Collaboration in Software Testing | Aleksandra Psheborovskaia | 42m |
Claims that almost 60% of QA still avoid AI and that delegating routine work doubles QA throughput and makes automation about four times faster. Delivers… | ||
| Leadership Lessons From Managing a Global Development Team in the Midst of War | Natalie Kaminski | 29m |
Company closes Russian office, establishes Jet Rockets LLC in Georgia, and relocates 75% of staff within months, using buses, trucks and Airbnb-style rentals… | ||
| A Story of Real Implementation of Shift Left | Ragavan Ambighananthan | 20m |
Concrete claim: every pull request deploys to a temporary Kubernetes stack pre-merge so full automation runs and returns feedback under 30 minutes… | ||
| Set Your Priorities Right | Pragati Sharma | 34m |
Claims a usable 8-step framework that converts feature lists into numeric priorities using a 2D matrix, 1–5 scales and weighted metrics. It treats reach and… | ||
| How Testing is Evolving in DevOps | Szilard Szell | 38m |
Claims that testing becomes continuous across the value stream and that observability is the gatekeeper for safe deploys, with concrete practices and tools… | ||
| Chaos Survival Guide: How to Start Testing if There is Nothing to Help You | Natalia Petrovskaia | 23m |
Practical checklist for getting testing started on a project with nothing: gather information about goals users integrations and timelines then iterate those… | ||
| Identifying Code Smells | Benjamin Bischoff | 37m |
Catalogues 21 code smells and walks through concrete Java code examples for each category (bloaters, OO abusers, change preventers, dispensables, couplers)… | ||
| DevOps Meet Sec: Your Journey To Delivering Secure Code Fast | Davide Cioccia | 38m |
Claims that embedding security into DevOps yields faster, cheaper protection and lists top nine pitfalls with concrete fixes. Recommends starting small with… | ||
| How to Manage QA Team as a Pro | Tanja Zinchenko | 38m |
Onboarding prescribes concrete steps: give the newcomer the product manual and online help, have them retest all bug reports and read server logs so they learn… | ||
| Elevating User Experience Through Effective Testing Strategies | Sowmya Sridharamurthy | 30m |
Argues that testers must shift into experience engineering with concrete practices not platitudes, citing three layers: people, process, technology. Calls out… | ||
| Professional Growth of the QA Engineer in Start-Up | Marina Ernst | 27m |
Claims concrete steps and results: built a quality system from scratch in 2.5 years, faces no time for formal testing, missing docs, and rapidly changing… | ||
| Is the Present Software Tester the Therapist? | Martijn Nas | 38m |
Claims that testers need hard people skills not just tech skills, backed by concrete methods: use motivational interviewing (claimed evidence‑based) to elicit… | ||
| Fighters, Bards, Druids and Wizards in IT – How to Talk to Them? | Paweł Zajączkowski | 34m |
Four workplace archetypes map to DISC and two axes (energy and task vs people) and each gets concrete tactics: Fighter (dominant) wants short agendas… | ||
| Age of DevSecOps, How to Take It Into Use and What Does It Mean for QA Specialists | Jani Haapala | 36m |
Argues that QA must become QE and own security champions within teams, showing concrete steps across the CI/CD loop: threat-driven planning, secure design… | ||
| Finding Flakiness: The Real Reasons Your Tests Aren't Reliable | Chris Harbert | 40m |
Claims that Selenium and UI tests can be made reliable and that flaky tests usually trace to environment or engineering problems rather than magic… | ||
| How Minimalism Helps Build High-Quality Products | Lina Zubyte | 33m |
Conference argues that fewer, intentional tools beat tool glut: one company has 100 employees and 120 tools and still spends hours stitching answers together… | ||
| How Not-To Test in Production: Learnings from DoorDash | Amit Gud | 28m |
Company abandons flaky staging and runs test and prod traffic on one stack claiming lower ops cost and higher fidelity; at DoorDash scale (thousands of merges… | ||
| ISTQB, Test It Yourself | Matthias Hamburg | 33m |
Redeveloped the ISTQB glossary as an always-online web app that serves 571 terms with continuous delivery, WCAG AA accessibility, and a goal of sub‑3s PDF… | ||
| 1.5 Billion Tests Per Day | Mattias Granlund | 34m |
Claim: a centralized system records about 1.5 billion test results per day and feeds models and tooling that cut cost and noise. A language-agnostic test… | ||
| The Power of Atomic Automated Tests | Sargis Sargsyan | 38m |
Talk claims clear, runnable practices: isolate tests so one failure pinpoints one feature, seed or update databases with SQL instead of slow snapshots, and… | ||
| Introducing the New Colleague - ChatGPT | Peter Sabev | 38m |
Claims that GPT‑4 1.76 trillion parameters drives rapid LLM progress, shows token limits (3.5: 4k, GPT‑4: 8k) and that plugins/Enterprise stop using data for… | ||
| Once Upon a Time...How Storytelling Will Improve Your Development and Test Results | Danny Higler | 31m |
Claim: building literal stories uncovers concrete requirements, stakeholders, risks and test scenarios. Tools actually used include mid Journey image prompts… | ||
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