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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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People / Skills

Your Testing Habitat is Rapidly Changing. Are You?

Ryan Volker

Covid-19 led to rapid and immediate changes to our lives, our work, and our habitat. This transformational moment is happening before our eyes. These are not the only changes occurring. Testers…
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Security Testing

Bitcoin and Free Thinking

Declan O'Riordan

Are you satisfied with your situation? If not you can try to accept it, or leave, or change yourself, or change the situation. Bitcoin and Blockchain were created by Cypherpunks…
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Agile Testing

The Power of an Agile Mindset

Linda Rising

What is an "an agile mindset"? Research has identified an attitude that equates failure and problems with opportunities for learning, a belief that we can all improve over time, that…
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Agile Testing

Creating Agile Super Teams

Selena Delesie

Ever hear of Super Teams? Agile is founded on collaboration, connection, and growing together. So we shun the superhero who needs to save the day. But what if heroes aren't…
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Agile Testing

Let’s Talk Quality – what does “Quality” mean for your customer?

Gitte Ottosen

We talk a lot about quality in Agile, both as test professionals and as members of an agile team. Things like “quality is the teams responsibility” or the term built-in…
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Agile Testing

Testing in Agile Contexts – AMA

Bob Galen

Join Bob Galen for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) where Bob will take YOUR questions on all aspects of Agile. This EuroSTAR Deep Dive event is a fantastic opportunity to…
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DevOps

Waterfall to DevOps – The Journey Between Two Worlds

Hanna Dernbrant

What's it like moving from Waterfall to DevOps? This live session will explore what it's like moving from a waterfall mindset to working with DevOps. How does this affect how…
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Agile Testing

Testing in Continuous Delivery – a Whole Team Approach

Lisa Crispin

Join Lisa Crispin for a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session this March. Lisa will take YOUR questions on all aspects of Agile and the team approach to testing in…
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Agile Testing

Built-In Quality

Derk-Jan de Grood

Agile coaches often focus on agile mindset, cultural change, collaboration and continues improvement. Organisations have adopted Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD practices widely in order to increase the delivered value and…
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Agile Testing

Achieve Continuous Testing with Intelligent Testing Automation, Powered by AI

Eran Bachar

In an era of rapid application changes, developers and test engineers are craving the speed and resiliency they need just to keep up. But businesses also need practical and immediate…
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People / Skills

What Testers can learn from Elephants

Iris Pinkster-O'Riordain & Greet Burkels

Do you know David Attenborough? He is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He studies, describes and researches wild life to create awareness and secure the preservation of nature. In…
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Other

Operational Readiness Testing

Christian Brødsjø & Bjørn Christian Schirmer

What happens when 700 scientists, technicians, and maintenance staff; along with 500 students and a bunch of horses, cattle, crayfish, fish and mice decide to wrap up thousands of infectious…
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People / Skills

How to become a Conference Speaker

Fran O'Hara

Key Learnings from this session Why you should consider becoming a speaker Tips on choosing what to speak about How to ‘sell’ your talk to a conference committee 2021 could…
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