Webinar Archives | EuroSTAR Huddle

Test Automation

Testing with Playwright

Chris Ayers

Automation Testing Deep Dive is an enticing event where professionals and newcomers alike can go all-in to share the knowledge about one of the testing branches with the most growth…
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Test Automation

Automated or Manual? What Can Go Wrong?

Ewa Marchewka

Automation Testing Deep Dive is an enticing event where professionals and newcomers alike can go all-in to share the knowledge about one of the testing branches with the most growth…
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Test Automation

Team Structures and Automation Patterns

Sowmya Sridharamurthy

Automation Testing Deep Dive is an enticing event where professionals and newcomers alike can go all-in to share the knowledge about one of the testing branches with the most growth…
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Test Automation

Automation Testing Deep Dive is an enticing event where professionals and newcomers alike can go all-in to share knowledge. In this talk, Elias Nogueira shares: Managing Test Data: Have ever…
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Other

Is Testing Like Electricity?

Phil Royston

EuroSTAR 2023 Virtual Day was an event to share ideas, knowledge, inspiration and to connect as a community. Its talks covered the strategic importance of testing, the quality engineering strategy,…
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Test Management

Quality Engineering Strategy

Rik Marselis

EuroSTAR 2023 Virtual Day was an event to share ideas, knowledge, inspiration and to connect as a community. Its talks covered the strategic importance of testing, the quality engineering strategy,…
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People / Skills

How I am Unfolding my Potential as a Neurodivergent in Testing

Viviane Hennecke

In this talk, Viviane Hennecke shares: - How I am Unfolding my Potential as a Neurodivergent in Testing. Ever felt different or worked with someone who you couldn’t understand? Who…
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People / Skills

Growing Pains – Lessons Learned from the Incredible Rise and Collapse of WCW

Chris Armstrong

Can you think of anything that once was so huge, that a future without it seemed implausible? That was me in the 1990s with pro-wrestling’s hottest property, WCW (World Championship…
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People / Skills

Graceful Degradation: Failing with Style

Samer Naqvi

“Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.” ― Michelle Obama We do a lot to reduce the chance that our application is…
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People / Skills

How to Prevent your Next Software Release Ending in Disaster

Andrew Brown

You have a major release scheduled. You have prepared a comprehensive plan, including contingencies, back-out routes, and go/no-go decision points. Yet, despite all your preparations, it all ends in disaster.…
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People / Skills

It Only takes One Genius

Isabel Evans

Rather than a typical presentation, in this talk, Isabel Evans is joined by Kristoffer Nordström & Rob Lambert for a tea & biscuits chat around well balanced teams. Our projects…
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People / Skills

EuroSTAR 2023 Virtual Community Stage

Community is what brings us together, no matter where we are. We have been delighted to welcome so many to this virtual get-together. At EuroSTAR, we are encourage community participation…
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Other

How Minimalism Helps Build High-Quality Products

Lina Zubyté

In this talk, Lina Zubytė, EuroSTAR 2023 Best Paper Winner, shares: How Minimalism Helps Build High-Quality Products and is followed by questions from Gek Yeo, EuroSTAR 2023 reporter. “Let’s get…
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Test Automation

How do the Global 500 approach API testing?

Gek-Hui Yeo, Benjamin Bischoff & Peter Thomas

Have you ever wondered if your teams should be doing more API testing? Do you have trouble convincing your development team to embrace tests that represent end-user flows? While it…
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Test Management

How Cegeka Manages Testing for their Client Projects

Filip Baert & Mariana Santos

In this webinar you will learn how Xray was used to improve QA and Testing processes in several businesses simultaneously while improving the collaboration between Cegeka, a Belgium IT Company…
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Test Automation

Quality Testing Strategies for Success

Andy Wyatt

To meet customer expectations for constant value delivery, companies have to continuously innovate, develop software and manage hundreds or even thousands of releases every year. Due to changes in customer…
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Test Automation

The Story Behind Dunelm’s Shift to a Culture of Quality Powered by Digital Transformation

Stuart Day & Maneesh Sharma

Dunelm is a billion-dollar home furnishings retailer in the UK, with over 170 stores across the country and a hugely successfully online operation – offering over 50,000 products across a…
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Test Automation

What Goethe’s Faust tells us about Test Automation

Anne Kramer

Use well your time! It flies so swiftly from us; But time through order may be won, I promise. Goethe's Faust is an inexhaustible source of truths that can be…
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Test Automation

Tips on Getting Started in Test Automation

Chris Loder

Chris gave a workshop on “Test Automation: How to Start and Succeed” at AutomationSTAR 2022 and it was well received so we asked him to prepare a 45min-60min version for…
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People / Skills

You Don’t Talk About THAT at Work

Sophie Küster

There are things you don’t talk about with your colleagues – even less so with your boss. Mental health issues are certainly a big no-no. When I first started working…
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Agile Testing

Test Manager, Orchestrator or Quality Coach?

Gitte Ottosen

For some years we have been talking about the role of the tester, and how it should/might change in the light of new ways of delivering software – with agile,…
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People / Skills

Mama Said My Shape Was Okay – A Better Shape than I, T and X

Jihad Ghandour

“At school, I was the shortest, and I had the darkest skin. Everyone bullied me for that, but Mama said my shape was okay. I always thought I needed to…
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Agile Testing

Good Enough Testing: Finding the Goldilocks Zone

Sanne Visser

Goldilocks was a spoiled little girl and a home invader. Fortunately, that’s not the moral of that story. The value of the fairy tale is that there is a point…
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Agile Testing

Ready for Test – A Symptom of a Poor Quality Culture

Thomas Shipley

The Ready for Test column on our boards feels safe, but is it? A well-known column with a clear purpose, at least that is how it might appear. But what…
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Test Automation

Enterprise Application Testing with Cloud-Based Device Farms

Jonathon Wright

Customers interact with mobile applications day in day out. Need to make a payment? Order food? Book a flight? There’s an app for that. Competition in the app store is…
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Test Automation

The High Risk of Low Code Testing: Performance Testing in Low Code Environments

Marjolein Pordon

Low-code is conquering the world of software development and is expected not only to stay, but take over software development. Miraculous as this may sound, is it also true? Low-code…
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Test Automation

APIOps

Daniel Kocot

API development always starts with the old and now boring battle of API or code first. Working with APIs refers to a process that includes design, development, and operations. Thus,…
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Test Automation

Awesome Web Testing with Playwright in Python

Andrew Knight

Everybody gets frustrated when web apps are broken, but testing them thoroughly doesn't need to be a chore. Playwright, a new open-source browser automation tool from Microsoft, makes testing web…
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Test Automation

Is Survival of the Fittest only for the Fastest

Wim Demey

The world of testing has evolved a lot over the last decade. Manual testing is under pressure by a lot of fast rages like test automation, CI/CD pipelines… And so…
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Agile Testing

The Future of Testing is Digital

Gerd Weishaar & Erik Kaare Andersen

20+ years and not much has changed. Testers are asked to test more technologies, faster and more often. On top of this, testing is still mostly done manually, because the…
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DevOps

Fight Inconspicuousness: How Visibility Can Increase Quality In Testing

Sérgio Freire & Cristiano Cunha

How much inconspicuousness do you have in your organisation, teams and processes? Are you even aware of those inconspicuous areas? Do you know that they can affect quality in testing?…
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Test Automation

Why NodeJS and Testing is like Driving a Car – Looking Under The Hood

Wim Selles

Nowadays a lot of people are using JavaScript based automation frameworks, and why not? They are the closest language to what your developers are using and it's easy to use. It's…
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People / Skills

Frustrated? It Might be your Fault – A Guide to Good Communication

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel

Are you trying to change the way you work but running into a brick wall? Maybe trying to do that cross-silo collaboration everyone keeps asking for, but they just don’t…
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People / Skills

Fantastic Biases & Where to Find Them in Software Development

Michael Kutz & João Proença

Why did all our test cases fail because of this simple bug? Nobody tried that out before? How did five people agree to implement this terrible feature? Why are our…
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People / Skills

The Human Side of Testing

Amanda Perkins

We’re known for breaking things and testing the limits, and patience, of our team and our systems. We advocate for quality in all things and we advocate for the end…
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People / Skills

AMA on Building Your Personal Brand

Raj Subrameyer

Raj Subrameyer is an export of the human side of software testing. Join Raj for this exciting talk and AMA where he will share his experience on building a personal…
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Test Automation

Building an Automation Strategy from Scratch

Laveena Ramchandani

In this talk Laveena will share her knowledge on her experience in building a test automation strategy from scratch. What is important, why its important and how to achieve it…
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Test Automation

Love at First Site: The Importance of Visual Testing

Andy Wyatt

Functional testing is evolving – digital confidence is more important than ever and visual testing is a rapidly emerging technique that is enabling organisations to push the boundaries of traditional…
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Test Automation

Who Tests the Tests – Mutation Testing

Bas Dijkstra

A lot of development teams write automated tests to check that their code and application behave as intended. However, the quality of these tests is unfortunately often underappreciated. If any…
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Test Automation

AMA with Dorothy Graham

Dorothy Graham

Dorothy Graham, Test Automation guru, creator of the test automation patterns wiki and co-author of five books on test automation will answer your questions on all things automation during this…
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Test Automation

Dos and Don’ts of Automation

Corina Pip

Automation has become a must in many projects. We dream of having automation based CI/CD pipelines that run smoothly, without any manual intervention. But sometimes our automation turns out not…
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Test Automation

Three Steps to Faster Test Automation with Low Code Tools

Paul Grossman

What is low code test automation and what are its benefits? In this talk Paul Grossman will explain and explore the world of low code automation. He will demonstrate the advantages…
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Test Automation

Leveraging Cypress beyond Functional Testing

Marie Drake

Cypress is currently one of the most popular test automation frameworks out there in the JavaScript community. With so many plugins that it can integrate to, we can actually leverage…
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Test Automation

Using Big Data Analysis to Reduce Test Flakiness

Adam Sandman & Denis Markovtsev

As a research project to see why test automation of web applications is so hard, and why our Selenium scripts seem to break so frequently, Adam and Denis ran an…
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Test Automation

Scenarios to consider when doing API Automation

Julia Pottinger

UI automation is pretty popular, and offers valuable feedback on the quality of software. In addition to doing UI automation, it is of great value that you also automate your…
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Non-Functional Testing

An Introduction to Exploratory Testing

John Spitta

What is Exploratory Testing? This is a simple question that is not easily answered. Join us on the 5th August to learn more about what exactly Exploratory Testing is. We…
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People / Skills

Test as Transformation

Keith Klain

Alignment in your test approach and business priorities is vital and will either accelerate or constrain enterprise transformation. Using his 20 years experience in building software quality management and testing…
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People / Skills

Testing Becoming Harder to be Valuable

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

We all like to think that the work we do is valuable, and that testers should be paid same as developers. If we want to talk about getting paid for…
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People / Skills

Career Advancement in the New Normal

Raj Subrameyer

Unlearn everything you know about your career and jobs. It is time we adapt to the new normal. You have worked in a company for over a decade. You have…
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