Insights from AutomationSTAR & 10 Commandments for Sustainable and Shared Test Automation

Gáspár Nagy & Jani Haapala

Spec Solutions & GoFore

Gáspár will bring a fresh perspective from AutomationSTAR 2025 to open this Virtual Day 2025. Then Jani Haapala will explain the importance of collaborative test automation to the whole team and show some automation anti-patterns. I will also explain my missionary foundations, the ten commandments of automation.

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EuroSTAR Huddle shares articles from our community. Check out our collection of eBooks from test experts and come together with the community in-person at the annual EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference. The EuroSTAR Conference has been running since 1993 and is the largest testing event in Europe, welcoming 1000+ software testers and QA professionals every year.

About Me!

About Gáspár:

I am the creator and main contributor of Reqnroll, regular conference speaker, co-author of “Effective Behavior-Driven Development” (https://hubs.la/Q03L7jfC0), blogger (http://gasparnagy.com) and editor of the BDD Addict monthly newsletter (http://bddaddict.com).
I work as an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on helping teams implementing BDD and Reqnroll. I have more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software development as I worked as an architect and agile developer coach.
I am an approved training provider of the Agile Testing Fellowship: I am a trainer of the “Agile Testing” and the “Holistic Testing” courses developed by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin.
I have been developing a synchronization tool called SpecSync that integrates Gherkin-based scenarios to Azure DevOps and Jira.

 

About Jani:

AI enthusiast, automation specialist, quality consultant, tester, developer, dad, husband. Passionate about measurement, feedback and continuous automated quality feedback loops.
Jani Haapala is AI on quality assurance Service Owner at Gofore. He spends his time conjuring up ways to help customers achieve their goals and supporting Gofore Verify consultants as they deliver the best solutions to meet customers’ needs. He is a dedicated DevOps advocate and evangelist who has been spreading the word in the software industry for well over a decade. Passion for the field started from manual testing and has evolved to full scale software development automation.


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