Barriers to Innovation: How Processes Paralyze Corporations
Barriers to innovation in German corporations start with excessive processes. AI won't pay off either while nobody cleans up decades-old data silos.
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Generative AI Ethics: The Case Against Hyperscale Models
Generative AI cannot be used ethically as long as training data is used without consent and billionaires control the models.
Business Agility in Crisis: An Emergency Diagnosis for Teams
Business agility is ailing in many companies, but not dead. Two emergency medicine checklists show where it hurts, and often one method less helps most.
Security Requirements: Assets First, Then Requirements
Security requirements stay abstract until a team defines what the system actually protects. CIA goals and threat modeling make it tangible.
Agentic Engineering: AI Accelerates Existing Principles
Agentic engineering is less about prompts than about the agent environment: your prompt is about 20 of 20,000 tokens. Cleanup agents keep quality up.
Blue Angel for Software: Transparency Instead of Top Marks
The Blue Angel for software asks for energy data, support for five-year-old hardware and free security updates. Certification takes about three months.
Security Testing for AI: Checking Outputs Instead of Just Inputs
AI security testing covers the whole life cycle, from training data to live queries. Why output filters often beat input filters, and what OWASP offers.
QFD: The Cause-and-Effect Analysis LLMs Can't Deliver
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) links customer benefits to functions and tests, the cause-and-effect analysis LLMs can't do. The result: fewer tests.
IEC 62443-4-1: A Toolbox for the Cyber Resilience Act
IEC 62443-4-1 builds security into the process from the first design step and covers much of what the Cyber Resilience Act will require from 2027.
Becoming a Test Automation Engineer: Treat Tests Like Code
From developer to test automation engineer: Why clean code principles decide which automation lasts for years and which doesn't.
How Stiftung Warentest Keeps Its Product Tests Objective
Stiftung Warentest buys products undercover, runs blind tests with reference devices and double-checks every measurement. Testers can borrow a lot.
TACON in Leipzig: Case Studies on Test Automation
TACON in Leipzig gathers around 130 practitioners for two days of test automation case studies from user companies, last held in September 2026.
QS Barcamp Hamburg: Why Attendance Stays Capped at 80
The QS Barcamp Hamburg caps attendance at 80 and has no fixed agenda, yet the talks go deep. Participants pitch their own sessions at the marketplace.
Test Reporting: A 3x3 Matrix Covers Almost Every Need
Test reporting in 5 steps: Goal, position, forecast, data quality and automation. How reporting becomes a real management tool.
Formal Methods: Why Is Functional Programming Helpful?
Formal methods sound like an ivory tower, but they provide what testing alone can never do: mathematical proof of correct behavior.
Call for Papers: 527 Submissions for About 50 Slots
EuroSTAR's call for papers drew 527 submissions for about 50 slots. The program chair explains how talks get picked and what makes one stand out.
AI-Generated Test Cases: Compliant Without Tool Validation
AI-generated test cases for medical devices: a RAG system retrieves in-house documents, a human reviews the results, so no tool validation is needed.
Test Coverage: Process Mining Shows What Really Runs
Test coverage needs the right denominator. Process mining shows which workflows run in production, and the top 10 of 600 runs cover about 80 percent.