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Are we preventing learning?

"AI delivers the result quickly. The development process passes us by." - Richard Seidl I like to go hiking. Uphill like this. The path is often rocky, sometimes strenuous, sometimes surprisingly beautiful. There are all kinds of things to discover....

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Cover of the expert talk on 'The ASQF quality network' with Felix Winter and Richard Seidl.

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The ASQF quality network

For almost three decades, a community in and around Erlangen has been strengthening software quality. Having grown out of the GTB and ISTQB...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'What is Behavior Driven Development, Really?' with Gáspár Nagy and Richard Seidl.

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What is Behavior Driven Development, Really?

Many teams learn faster from examples than from rulebooks. Behavior driven development turns that habit into practice. Examples are mapped, refined,...

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Better collaboration with model-based testing

A new crew management system is being developed under intense time pressure. Requirements are flexible, acceptance must be spot on. Model-based...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Pains and Hypes of Software Testing' with Daniel Knott and Richard Seidl.

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Pains and Hypes of Software Testing

Budget pressure often pushes quality to the edge. Shortcuts look cheap, then cost more in defects, outages, and trust lost. AI and low code speed...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Accessibility testing of PDFs' with Baris Güldali and Richard Seidl.

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Accessibility testing of PDFs

Invoices, forms and contracts characterize everyday life, but many digital documents remain inaccessible. The focus is on accessible PDFs, supported...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Testers as Influencers ' with Kat Obring and Richard Seidl.

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Testers as Influencers

Quality work shifts from gatekeeping to influence. The tester stops saying everything is broken and starts framing impact in business terms. Evidence...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Using the board game for test design' with Ralf Somplatzki and Richard Seidl.

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Using the board game for test design

A development team turns an idea into a board game that generates real test cases for checkout software. With shopping lists as missions, shopping...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Migrating from Cypress to Playwright' with Maciej Wyrodek and Richard Seidl.

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Migrating from Cypress to Playwright

A team faced growing friction in end to end tests and made a clean comparison of Cypress and Playwright. Opinionated workflows, plugin churn, iframe...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Testing with Natural Intelligence' with Christian BrandesJonas Poller and Richard Seidl.

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Testing with Natural Intelligence

A penny causes a price to tilt, a form crashes when a character is inserted on the left. Findings like these show how valuable natural intelligence...

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