title	conference	date
Panel Discussion: AI and Community: Shifting Roles, Rising Impact	TestMu Conference 2025	2025-08-19
Panelists argue AI drives up pull request volume and yields many low-quality PRs unless maintainers add gatekeeping, citing cases where LLMs create failing… Panel on
Selenium & Appium State of the Union	SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2025	2025-03-26
Selenium reports near-complete WebDriver BiDi support in Java and JavaScript (~95–100%), .NET ~80% and Ruby ~70–75%, and bundles Selenium Manager since ~4.30… Talk on
Interview – Maaret Pyhäjärvi	SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2025	2025-03-26
Brief remarks about enjoying Valencia and the Selenium Conference, noting a third visit and lots of hallway conversations while skipping formal sessions… Interview on
Learning through Osmosis	Agile Testing Days 2024	2024-11-19
Teams work on one task at one keyboard so everyone learns by watching and doing, using one computer with a rotating driver who follows commands and a… Talk on
Patterns to Whole-Team Test Automation Transformation	Selenium Conf 2022	2022-07-29
Organization builds a company library called Plexus and moves UI tests from Robot Framework into pytest and Playwright or Cypress so developers actually… Talk on
Go Find What We May Have Missed!	TestJS Summit 2021	2021-11-18
Exploratory testing frames the assignment: React frontend plus real and fake backends, so take control of API responses and see what breaks. Runs the app… Talk on
"Better Ideas at Test Design"	TestFlix 2021	2021-10-23
Frames test design as a continuous pipeline of ideas that turn tester skill into actionable information, and uses risk-based domain testing and… Talk on
Many Hats to Make a Tester	Appium Conference 2021	2021-09-17
Claim: testing duties must be split across a whole team, not one person, with concrete roles and measurable costs. The team maps 15 hats (examples: product… Talk on
Many Hats to Make a Tester	Appium Conference 2021	2021-09-17
Claims that testing work splits into 15 hats across a team of 15 (five testers + ten developers), not one role; lists concrete hats like product historian… Talk on
Up Your Agency	TestFlix 2020	2020-11-28
Claim: giving testers real agency — freedom to choose how to test, create throwaway code, and design test automation — turns them from information providers… Talk on
Intersection of Automation and Exploratory Testing	SeleniumConf India 2020	2020-09-10
Claim: exploratory testing and automation are complementary and learning-focused, not opposed. Uses the Gilded Rose refactoring kata run under coverage with… Talk on
Little Learning Actions for Better Feedback	Serverless Architecture Conference 2019	2019-10-14
As an exploratory tester I get a good look at the ways we build the client and the backend in a product shifting heavily into the world of serverless. We’ve… Talk on
Exploratory Testing on Computer Interfaces (APIs)	Serverless Architecture Conference 2019	2019-10-14
Concrete, hands‑on demo of exploratory testing applied to APIs and low‑level interfaces: Gilded Rose kata driven with ApprovalTests / CombinationApprovals… Talk on
Intersection of Automation and Exploratory Testing	React Finland 2019	2019-04-24
Claims that exploratory testing drives what to automate and that automation is an invitation to explore; demonstrates using approval tests against a Java… Talk on
Intersection of Automation and Exploratory Testing	Selenium Conference India 2018	2018-06-28
Exploratory testing drives decisions about what to automate by uncovering real surprises: a demo on gilded rose uses combination approvals to generate and… Talk on
An Exploratory Tester's lessons on Security Threat Modeling	Oredev 2017	2017-11-08
Exploratory testing pairs with threat modeling to produce concrete artifacts: whiteboard data‑flow and sequence diagrams, a STRIDE checklist, and a short task… Talk on
Trailer Agile Testing Days 2017	Agile Testing Days 2016	2016-12-05
A lively, week-long conference that creates a collaborative container for reconnecting and building the testing community, mixing deep technical conversations… Promo on
Wake Up! All Testers Need to Know How to Code!	Agile Testing Days 2016	2016-12-05
Argues that testers do not need to know how to code as a requirement and that most value comes from design thinking around problems rather than writing lines… Talk on
Interview with – Maaret Pyhäjärvi	Agile Testing Days 2016	2016-12-05
Lead quality engineer at F‑Secure describes shifting a product from long quiet periods to frequent releases within months, pushing continuous delivery… Interview on
Serendipity and Perseverance — Injecting Testing in a Test-Resistant Team	Wildcard Conference 2013	2013-09-13
One tester joins a team with 1 tester to 10 developers, finds logging shows 10% of logged-in customers see program errors (reduced to ~1%), throws away bloated… Talk on
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