TestCon Europe 2025
2025-10-21..2025-10-24
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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
testers, test automation engineers, QA managers, test architects, devops engineers, performance engineers
topics
fuzz testing web APIs; continuous API mocking; Playwright UI and API testing; agentic AI testing; AI driven UI and API automation; CI/CD observability and DORA; performance testing and tuning; automated vs manual accessibility testing; Windows desktop app test automation; Java test framework SPI extensions; network chaos simulation for resilience
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Practical Strategies for Building and Maintaining a Thriving QA Community | Mikko Paloheimo | 38m |
Built an internal OP Tech Academy with 6 learning towers (QA, DevOps, data, security, AI, design) offering 6–11 week courses run by internal mentors, spring… | ||
| Spec Driven Development with Kiro: Ensuring Quality and Traceability in the AI Era | Haim Michael | 45m |
Kiro runs as an agentic IDE built on VS Code and enforces a specs‑first workflow: requirements → design → task list, with AI executing tasks only after… | ||
| Test-driven Development, AI, Pair Programming, Agile Testing | Chris Harbert | 47m |
Argues for writing tests first and using AI as a pair programmer, demonstrating live with Claude Code and a Cucumber TypeScript setup in VS Code; initializes a… | ||
| It's Inevitable, Mr. Anderson: Machines, Humans, and the Future of Testing | Alexander Gyulai | 42m |
Auto1 Group deploys about 15,000 changes a year across ~900 services and uses five AI agents that four QA engineers build to augment testing workflows. Agents… | ||
| Value, Money, and Costs: The Ultimate Common Language | Vitaly Sharovatov | 46m |
Argues that testing is best framed as an economic investment, running 1–3 day workshops that map managers’ monetary fears to ISO quality attributes and choose… | ||
| How John Started to Like TDD (Instead of Hating It) | Nacho Cougil | 46m |
Compares three concrete implementations in Java with Spring Boot: starting at the database, starting at business logic, and starting from the external endpoint… | ||
| Leveraging AI and Data Virtualization for QA in ERP Implementations | Dean Bodart | 44m |
Claims a proprietary SQAI Suite speeds ERP testing about 47% faster by auto‑generating context‑aware test cases and wiring into test management (Zephyr… | ||
| Testing Parquet Support in ClickHouse Using Combinatorics | David Mnatobishvili | 39m |
Demonstrates that a combinatorial test harness generates real Parquet files with a custom tool parquetify (based on Apache Parquet Java), drives ClickHouse… | ||
| Breaking Boundaries with Adversarial Testing | Adonis Celestine | 35m |
Claims that adversarial testing plus red teaming uncover real LLM failures, shows concrete exploits like Dan exploit, token smuggling and multi‑turn crescendo… | ||
| Defining “DevExT”, the Developer Experience in Testing | Thomas Schoemaecker | 44m |
Claims a 4–5× innovation boost from better Developer Experience in Testing and backs it with concrete measures: BrowserStack adds Test Observability, a unified… | ||
| Driving Motivation in Diverse Teams | Romina Pierce | 44m |
Claims that leadership is 75% men and 64% white (McKinsey) and that 85 million specialist and manager roles go unfilled by 2030 drive concrete fixes: McKinsey… | ||
| How to Create Your QA Dream Team Structure | Magdalena Rutkowska | 46m |
Compares seven QA structures and gives concrete tradeoffs so decisions hinge on context not buzzwords: pick structure based on maturity and size, product… | ||
| Fuzz Testing Web APIs: Overview of Existing Tools | Andrea Arcuri | 45m |
Compares concrete tools—EvoMaster, CATS, Restler, Schemathesis—and reports experiments on real systems (a lab comparison over 36 APIs and deployments at… | ||
| TOP 5 Modern Stereotypes in QA World | Ana Palchevska | 45m |
Five concrete claims and actions: lists five modern stereotypes, argues AI won’t replace QA for 10–20 years while urging teams to pick and personalize 1–3 AI… | ||
| Navigating Remote QA: How to Build and Scale High-Performing Teams Virtually | Shushan Aspaturyan | 43m |
Concrete claims, concrete practices: a remote QA team moves through five phases of team development and is held up by five pillars: safety, structure &… | ||
| Agile Interaction | Riikka Alajoki | 38m |
Claim: primitive reactions drive every interaction and can be shifted with small practices. Evidence: a program of 350 QA professionals runs about six million… | ||
| A Quality Hero Complex | Rick Tracy | 42m |
Talk argues that testers develop a Quality Hero Complex that hoards responsibility, creates learned helplessness, and burns people out; evidence includes… | ||
| Game Theory and the Art of Teamwork in Software Development | Nikolaj Tolkaciov | 39m |
Claim: applying iterative Prisoner’s Dilemma to engineering teams produces concrete tactics not platitudes. Evidence: a tournament of 14 submitted strategies… | ||
| Continuous API Mocking and Testing with Microcks, Keptn, and Testkube | Mario-Leander Reimer | 50m |
Demo repository installs Microcks, Keptn, and Testkube on a local Kubernetes cluster, auto-generates mocks from OpenAPI/AsyncAPI/SOAP specs and validates real… | ||
| Tester’s Mindset: Rethinking Software Testing Through Mentorship | Marina Ernst | 42m |
One year of running a training program produces concrete results: an iterated curriculum and mentoring routines that mitigate confirmation anchoring and… | ||
| Plan Automation with 5% Rule: The Incremental Approach | Mariami Goginava | 45m |
Claims a repeatable 5% Rule milestone: deliver at least 5% new automated coverage per short period (week/month/quarter) and iterate. Uses a quarter-based model… | ||
| Practical LLM Evals: Down-to-Earth Tooling for Everyone | Justas Lauzadis | 44m |
A hands-on runthrough of tooling and a concrete experiment that actually measures outcomes not buzzwords covering local LLMs via Ollama/Open WebUI and models… | ||
| Navigating the Testing Wilderness: Mind Maps and AI as Your Trusted Compass | Igor Goldshmidt | 46m |
Claims that combining visual mind maps with AI turns chaotic requirements into actionable test plans, showing a draft in four minutes generated from PDFs and… | ||
| 82 Bugs I Collected in a Year You Won’t Believe Made It to Production | Francois Martin | 42m |
Title promises 82 but actual haul is 439 bugs gathered over about two years, each screenshoted and classified; counts show UI issues dominate with responsive… | ||
| Performance Testing and Tuning of Web Applications | David Matejcek | 45m |
Uses Java with embedded GlassFish and testcontainers, runs 500 concurrent threads in repeated five‑second iterations, creates up to 500,000 users and measures… | ||
| Real World Playwright Case Studies That Will Change Your Perspective! | Ashish Ghosh | 43m |
Large-bank case studies show Playwright replacing Selenium to run multiple user flows inside one Chromium process with browser contexts that cut memory and… | ||
| Testing Documentation: Why So Technical? | Ana Duarte | 44m |
Documentation must explain the why and the how and show it works: X‑ray claims over 10 million users and handles 100 million test cases per month, docs live in… | ||
| Practical Ideas on Building Quality Culture | Alena Badzilouskaya | 45m |
QA drives concrete changes: set up custom ADO/Gyra risk items and attach them to releases, build dashboards showing traceability and burndown, and score bugs… | ||
| Testing Agentic AI Applications: Beyond Traditional QA | Sai Krishna, Srinivasan Sekar | 43m |
Concrete failures, tools, counts and fixes: Voice AI Agent: 20+ deployments where the agent correctly parses “Q3 sales figures” then autonomously appends… | ||
| QA Trends and Concerns - How to Stand Out Through Test Automation and Scrum | Spyros Katopodis | 46m |
AI-generated pipelines at Zebra convert Jira epics and docs into a single feature document extractor then to CSV test cases and into automated Robot Framework… | ||
| We Are The Testers: You Will Be Assimilated | Rick Tracy | 37m |
Proposes to flip the ratio from many devs per tester to teams with one or two developers and four testers — a test architect, test engineer, analyst… | ||
| The Real Impact of AI in Software Testing | David Mnatobishvili, Dean Bodart, Filip Hric, Justas Lauzadis, Matthias Rasking | 46m |
Panelists argue that AI changes testing by shifting work toward code reading, data science and error analysis rather than eliminating testers, citing many… | ||
| Measuring Performance with Functional Tests: A Low-Effort Approach for High Impact | Peter Sabev | 42m |
Proposal shows that adding zero-budget timestamps to existing functional tests produces actionable metrics: record start/end times, add granular stopwatches… | ||
| Quality Leadership: Building and Growing Strong Testing Teams | Ana Duarte, Ashish Ghosh, Leigh Rathbone, Mariami Goginava, Tatyana Velikanova, Vitaly Sharovatov | 47m |
Claims that the Belbin model produced the highest‑performing hires, that reducing QE headcount raised team efficiency, and that requiring basic API skills via… | ||
| Compliance, Security and Ethics: The Tester’s New Frontier | Adonis Celestine, Angel Petrov, David Matejcek, Mikko Paloheimo | 40m |
Discussion delivers concrete details: EU Digital Operational Resilience Act is already driving changes, the European Accessibility Act extends obligations to… | ||
| Exploratory Load-Testing with AI Tooling - it's Time to Ramp Up! | Ole Lensmar | 37m |
Demonstration shows AI-assisted exploratory load testing that actually runs tests and inspects artifacts: Test Cube plus an MCP server driving K6 from a cursor… | ||
| How to Use AI with Playwright for UI & API Testing | Michal Slezak | 39m |
Demos show specific, actionable results: AI generates Playwright tests from Trello OpenAPI and produces Page Objects from pasted HTML, Playwright codegen plus… | ||
| Code Without Caution: AI's Path to the Next Digital Disaster | Leigh Rathbone | 42m |
Predicts a near-term disaster from putting more code live in the next five years as teams copy‑paste GenAI output, losing tacit knowledge, and cites GitHub… | ||
| AI Driven UI Automation, API Automation and CICD Integration | Kaan Kiziltug | 44m |
Claims an AI-driven framework built with browser use with LLM integration and Python that replaces brittle CSS selectors with visual element recognition and… | ||
| The Fear of Becoming Irrelevant | Jonas Hermansson | 42m |
Claims that AI automates the boring parts of testing and speeds delivery by generating test data, strategies and even production prototypes; experiments use… | ||
| Zen-Driven Development - Protect Your Sanity | Csaba Szokocs | 55m |
Practical claims and clear tactics: use the calendar as a priority tool (block deep work, reserve ~20% of your calendar), treat time as a budget, and start… | ||
| How to Steal AI’s Job | Filip Hric | 54m |
Claims that AI didn’t replace a person by magic but displaced roles during pivots include a concrete layoff count of seven of 14 engineers and a rehiring after… | ||
| The Better Quality Movement - How We Can Advocate for a Better Digital World | Chris Harbert | 58m |
Exposes concrete failures and concrete fixes: a platform built to run 7,000 machine learning models at scale, real deployments that lose money — $590 million… | ||
| One Strategy, One Community: A deep dive into a Global Testing Transformation | Ashish Ghosh | 43m |
ING identifies 42 production incidents that were preventable, inventorying 44 white-box tools, 52 blackbox tools and 110 programming languages as root causes… | ||
| Automated vs. Manual Accessibility Testing: Finding the Right Balance | Angel Petrov | 38m |
Claims that automation finds roughly 30–50% automatable accessibility issues, with concrete tool mentions like WCAG checkers and a contrast/PDF checker, plus… | ||
| Beyond Bugs: How AI Turns QA into Full-Cycle Engineers | Alex Shershebnev | 48m |
Claim: MCP lets LLMs use real tools so QA moves from filing bugs to reproduces and fixes bugs, using Context 7, custom MCP servers, and playrite to drive… | ||
| Large Action Models Are Coming For Your Testing Frameworks! | Adam Sandman | 45m |
Claims that Claude 3.5 Sonnet and other Large Action Models can operate a desktop and perform agentic tests autonomously, demos show vision‑based clicks and… | ||
| From Clickers to Coders: The SDET Evolution Story | Siddhant Wadhwani | 43m |
Claims concrete outcomes: generative AI is used to predict defects and generate test data, CI/CD plus Docker and Jenkins enable real‑time in‑sprint automation… | ||
| AI Just Happened to Me : Help!! | Shray Sharma | 38m |
Covers concrete QA actions: prefers RAG pipelines over repeated fine‑tuning and retrains models only once, runs AB tests to compare old and new models, and… | ||
| Do You Care about Requirements Management and Traceability? Use TestOps and Atlassian | Rina Nir | 40m |
Claims a concrete six times faster reduction in traceability reporting by wiring Jira, Confluence, X‑ray, GitHub and test runs together; demonstrates automatic… | ||
| CI/CD Observability, Metrics and DORA: Shifting Left and Cleaning Up! | Peter Souter | 37m |
Concrete claims and numbers: DataDog reports a test impact analysis that saves about 6,500 CI hours per month (~19 hours per developer) and exposes failures by… | ||
| DORA, CSA, AI Act - What Does All of This Mean to Me as a Tester? | Matthias Rasking | 46m |
EU acts like DORA and the AI Act demand concrete testing actions not slogans: DORA mandates 24 hours major-incident reporting, annual tests of critical… | ||
| Scalable Windows Desktop Apps Test Automation - Myth or Reality? | Lukas Makaravicius | 31m |
Claim: scalable, stable Windows desktop test automation is achievable; evidence: market analysis comparing Fly UI to Appium, image‑recognition tools and… | ||
| Leveraging GitHub Copilot to 3X Your Playwright Test Efficiency | Igor Dorovskikh, Vasyl Shpak | 43m |
Claim of 3X faster claim gets tested with specifics: GitHub Copilot and Cursor generate a login Playwright test from one prompt, Playwright MCP gives page… | ||
| Strategic Business Functionality Testing: Accelerating Development Through Mocking | Darius Nemeiksis | 40m |
Claims a homegrown proxy called Mox replaces fragile end‑to‑end dependencies with mocked REST/SOAP stubs, parses XML to JSON, and auto‑collects real responses… | ||
| Developers Are (Not) Lazy! Why is It So Difficult to Get Programmers to Do Unit Testing | Daniel Horn | 47m |
Argues developers aren’t lazy but deprioritise tests under feature pressure and external demands, so testers stop enforcing hard KPIs and instead adopt… | ||
| How Testers Can Help Paving the Future of Modern Requirements Engineering | Daniel Horn | 36m |
Argues testers move left into requirements engineering by turning requirements into executable examples and early tests, claiming faster delivery and fewer… | ||
| Karate: Beyond API testing | Benjamin Bischoff | 44m |
Karate proves itself as more than an API tool by showing UI testing against a real browser (Chrome, headless or Docker), a local mock server that returns… | ||
| Extending a Java Test Framework with SPI | Benjamin Bischoff | 37m |
Concrete claim: Java's decades‑old Service Provider Interface (SPI) is the core of a plugin architecture that turns a monolithic end‑to‑end test framework into… | ||
| Selenide: Make Java UI Tests Great Again! | Andrei Solntsev | 39m |
Claims that Selenide makes Java UI tests concise and robust by layering a testing API on top of Selenium, providing built on Selenium reliability with faster… | ||
| Simulating the Chaos of Real-World Networks for Resilient Applications | Walid Tazout | 36m |
An in-house test rig simulates real-world network chaos using a cheap OpenWRT router, a Flask UI and shell scripts that call tc traffic control, proving… | ||
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