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Cover of the expert talk on 'Do your tools fit your real needs?' with Mesut Durukal and Richard Seidl.

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Do your tools fit your real needs?

A team faced a simple fact: users were on Safari, their tests were not. The discussion maps a method to pick an end to end test tool by needs over hype. Requirements first: target browsers, reliability, speed, cross language support, CI fit,...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'More quality in requirements with AI' with Andreas GuentherBreno Pinheiro and Richard Seidl.

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More quality in requirements with AI

When requirements remain vague, testing becomes a lottery. Across all industries: pure text is rarely enough. Domains differ, but the principles...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Fail more to learn faster' with Chris Armstrong and Richard Seidl.

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Fail more to learn faster

Context shapes every aspect of software testing, yet its dynamic nature often requires testers to operate with humility, curiosity, and a willingness...

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Cover of the expert talk on 'Career as a software tester' with Christine Pinto and Richard Seidl.

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Career as a software tester

A career in software testing rarely starts on a greenfield site. Between job advertisement myths and role clichés, the path leads from bug finder to...

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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...

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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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