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Cover of the expert talk on 'Why AI cannot do cause-and-effect - and QFD helps' with Thomas Fehlmann and Richard Seidl.

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Why AI cannot do cause-and-effect - and QFD helps

Current AI models cannot explain why they come to a result - they lack causal thinking. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) offers exactly that: a matrix-based method that connects customer benefits via cause-and-effect chains with concrete functions...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Why Your CI Pipeline Is Lying to You' with Simon Stewart and Richard Seidl.

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Why Your CI Pipeline Is Lying to You

Flaky tests destroy trust in CI systems and lengthen feedback loops, but deleting them immediately might mean missing critical production issues. The...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Practical and safe development with IEC 62443-4-1' with Holger Santelmann and Richard Seidl.

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Practical and safe development with IEC 62443-4-1

Standards for secure software development are often seen as a necessary evil - but what if a team actually learns to appreciate them? The...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'From Nokia to iPhone: What Pen Testers Learned' with Bartosz Czernic-Goławski and Richard Seidl.

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From Nokia to iPhone: What Pen Testers Learned

Your smartphone knows if you brake too hard, speed on highways, and exactly where you are every second – and insurance companies want that data to...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'From developer to test automation engineer' with Benjamin Bischoff and Richard Seidl.

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From developer to test automation engineer

The switch from software development to test automation brings with it clean code and design patterns - but not the instinct to recognize where...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Empowering Women in Software Testing' with Line Thomsen and Richard Seidl.

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Empowering Women in Software Testing

Software testing has more women than most tech fields, yet female testers still face the challenge of being the only woman in a developer-heavy team....

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Cover of the expert talk on 'How Stiftung Warentest tests' with Johannes Stiller and Richard Seidl.

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How Stiftung Warentest tests

Vacuum cleaners, toothbrushes, laptops - Stiftung Warentest has been putting products through their paces for decades. But how is such a test...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'The Hidden Playwright Advantage Developers Miss' with Maciej Kusz and Richard Seidl.

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The Hidden Playwright Advantage Developers Miss

Playwright is everywhere, but most teams default to TypeScript without questioning whether it's the right fit. Python offers a compelling alternative...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'TACON - A practical conference about test automation' with Andre Köhler and Richard Seidl.

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TACON - A practical conference about test automation

A specialist conference with 130 participants, where the evening event often brings more than the presentations - can that work? For eight years,...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Stop the blame, keep the learning' with Natalia Romanska and Richard Seidl.

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Stop the blame, keep the learning

Most QA professionals share their wins at conferences, but the failures that make you want to hide are often the ones with the most valuable lessons...

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